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The MSU-B attendees to the ACUI confrence get dressed up for
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Anzerson, Amanda Prongua.Christina Sprague, Deanna
Evans Cheryl Grew-Gillen
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Volume 73 - Issue 3 - November 4, 2002
ACUI Audience Silenced by Kern's Vivid Story
Staff Writer
A Holocaust victim cast an un-easy
light on a recent Association of
College Unions International meeting
in Portland.
Alice Kern's tale of how her
family was stripped of all its belongings
and herded into cattle cars hushed stu-dents
and faculty attending the ACUI
conference immediately. Each person
sat in complete silence, as she talked
about how her mother and two young
cousins were deemed of no use upon
arrival at Auschwitz and immediately
sent to the gas chamber. while she was
sent to do labor with other able-bodied
women.
She spoke of how they might be
called to be stripped and stood in rows
to be looked over at any time of day or
night. If their health appeared to be fad-ing,
they would be sent to the gas cham-ber
as well.
Kern spoke of how they were
drugged to keep them docile as they
stripped the clothes from people being
herded by the thousands into the gas
chambers. They tore the clothing into
strips and treated them with chemicals
to make explosives for the Nazi army.
Every person, young and old alike, who
arrived at Auschwitz were sent to the
gas chambers.
Kern spoke slowly, and occasion-ally
she would grow quiet as she told
the group of how as the years wore on,
she grew thin. She knew that she. too,
like her mother and many of her friends
would be chosen to be pCit to death if
she did not do something. Kern learned
to hide from guards who were chosen
to weed out the weak. Several times
she was caught and sent to the gas
chambers. Kern said the insides looked
just like showers but there was always
one black shower head from which no
water
flowed.
Each time
she was
saved,
once be-cause
of a
bombing
raid and an-other
be-cause
the
victims re-alized
their
fate and ri-oted.
Kern
talked
about the
failed at-tempts
of
many to es-cape.
As
the war drew to a close, Nazi forces
began to realize they would lose. Near
the end of her second year at the camp
they were forced to walk many miles
on bare feet with no food or water. Her
only source of sustenance was the
snow she could grab from the side of
the roads before the soldiers would see
her. Anyone who no longer could walk
was shot and left behind. Eventually
they made their way to the train depot
where they were once again loaded
into open-roofed box cars. subjected
to the cold and the snow.
They sat in the cars for days sur-viving
as best they could on snow that
fell intermittently. Eventually the train
left the station and they were moved
to another death camp where they
were kept in flea-infested cabins and
abandoned as the Nazis fled. The
women waited there, afraid they may
be shot if they left. Eventually the sur-viving
women were freed from the
camp by the Allies. Kern was found in
a coma by the Swiss and sent to Swit-zerland
where they took care of her and
nourished her back to health. Kern
spoke of seeing herself in a mirror the
first time she felt able to walk. She
said she had no face anymore just
sunken eyes, her legs and chest no
more than a skeleton.
Kern didn't fear death while in
captivity. She just wanted to live. Her
mother had told her on the train to
Auschwitz that she had to grow up and
get married. She used her mother's
words to help her survive.
She met and married a photog-rapher
who had been assigned to take
pictures of prison-camp survivors.
They moved to Portland Oregon where
they made their life. Kern spoke about
how she refused to let herself think of
anything before she arrived in Portland,
wanting to forget her experiences in
Auschwitz. Her mind changed after
having her fourth child. Kern decided
that the must remember her family and
her mother so she began to write ev-erything
down she remembered. She
wrote many years on scraps of paper
on the backs of envelopes as she re-membered
different things about her
life before coming to America.
Wondering if anyone else had
these memories she began to search
other survivors of the Holocaust.
Eventually she formed a group of
people sharing their stories and work-ing
together to make sure no one ever
forgot what hate can do. Kern told the
ACUI group of her group's current
project to get a memorial built along
the Columbia River for all those who
suffered.
Kern has since gone back to
Auschwitz and her home town to face
her past. She told a television crew.
who accompanied her. about life in
the death camp. Kern told historians
details they hadn't known. Her native
house was now occupied and had
been remodeled. Nothing of her fam-ily
remained inside.
Throughout her speech Kern
emphasized that hate accomplishes
nothing. She doesn't hate the Nazis
because that is what they would want.
She told the group that they are lead-ers
and have an obligation to fight hate
in their areas and to promote diver-sity.
Kern said to never give up.
This was one of the many pre-sentations
at the ACUI Leadership
seminar. Eight MSU-Billings students
and staff members, Alexis Urbaniak,
Nels Kelley. Noelle Clark,Carla
Amerson, Amanda Prongua.Christina
Sprague, . Cheryl Grew-Gillen at-tended
the confrence. Many seminars
spoke of hate and how to combat its
effects and to respect diversity but this
one event stood out to those who at-tended
it. All who attended the con-ference
came back with experiences
which they hope to put to use on the
campus and memories they will never
forget.
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Photos of the Week
Photos by MiSuk Kim
Above: The _first snow
blankets MSU-Billings
with a fine coat of
white. The cold set in
quickly but the snow
only lasted a couple of
days.
Left: The Waste
Odyessy, an art
sculpture completed in
2001 by two MSU-Billings
Art Students,
graces the campus
with its unique
perspective of trash.
See more about this
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[ NEWS 1---0
From the Editor
Janna Huhtala
Editor-in-Chief
Winter ugh! It came so
soon, and without any warning. For
some it means snowboarding, ski-ing
and weekends in a ski cabin at
Red Lodge. For me it means extra
travel on snow covered roads, and
two extra piles of blankets on my
bed! The Retort has been bearing
the weather change and the extra
work load this week. While it was
a quiet week in the press, it was a
busy week for the writers and edi-tors.
Anyway, in this issue you will
find articles about fire safety in the
dorms, what's up with the college
bowl, and a wrap up of the CCR
revival concert. Also there is a new
column, an advice column done by
our very own Morgan and Malibu.
Check out our campus forum
which highlights some of the ini-tiatives
and candidates up for
the Nov. 5th election. Don't for-get
to get out of bed and vote
on Election day! Your lives are
dependent on it! Ok not really,
but vote anyway!
October 30th - November
3rd, four members of the Retort
staff (including myself) are jet-ting
off to Orlando, Florida for
the National College Media
Convention. Watch next issue,
for the exclusive on our trip, in-cluding
the perils of travel, the
cost of food in Fla., and the
weather. Sun, fun, and
education...who could ask for
more?
I'll see you all next week,
I'll be the one with the tan! :)
November 4, 2002
Deanna Utroske
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Fire Safety is a Hot Issue on MSU-B Campus
Larissa Leonard
News Editor
Every year the college re-views
the fire safety codes and
rules for each of the buildings.
Jeannie Mclsaac-Tracy stated,
"All of the dorm rooms have fire
safety procedures posted on
the backs of the doors and in
the back of the student hand-book
are fire safety guidelines."
Each dorm room receives the
procedures at the beginning of
the fall semester unless the
person stayed in the room all
summer and plans to return to
the same room in the fall.
The rules for fire safety
are reviewed by the Resident
Assistants (RA's) each semes-ter.
These rules include no
smoking in the dorms or on the
balconies of the floors, no burn-ing
candles or incense in your
room, and cook only in the
kitchen area. This also means
when you leave the kitchen area
turn off the stove if you use the
stove.
The renovations irr the Lib-eral
Arts building included a
sprinkler system; now the
dorms, Rimrock and Petro, are
the only places left to receive
sprinkler systems. The state
will not fund the sprinkler sys-tems
in the dorms because they
are not considered places of
learning. If you live in the
dorms you could lose every-thing
because of one careless
mistake. The only way to have
a sprinkler system put into
place is by people petitioning
that they want a sprinkler sys-tem
and finding the money to
fund the project.
Adding a sprinkler system
costs, at minimum, $950,000.
This price just for starting the
project. When the buildings
were built there was not a re-quirement
for buildings under
eight stories to have sprin-klers.
There have been talks
as to whether or not to have a
complete sprinkler system in-stalled
in each of the dorm
rooms. There are already
sprinkler heads on each floor
in the kitchens, laundry rooms,
near the garbage chutes, in the
hallways, and between the
bathrooms and showers.
Students with disabilities
who may need assistance to
exit the buildings should go to
Disability Support Services
(DSS) to find out how to exit the
buildings safely. DSS will tell
students where to go during a
fire alarm. They should also
have an RA, a neighbor, if they
are in the dorms, or a friend in
their classes know where they
are so the rescue personnel
could help them down easier.
Knowing the escape routes
for each of the buildings you are
in will make it easier to evacu-ate
the building if there ever is
a real fire. There are evacua-tion
plans posted in each of the
buildings. Keep yourself safe by
knowing where the fire exits are
for all the buildings you are in.
Is Corporate Funding Inevitable For MSU-B?
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With the likelihood of no new
money coming from the state of
Montana for public higher-educa-tion
within the foreseeable future,
the hands and thoughts of schools
like MSU-Billings may be turning to
corporations in hopes of supple-menting
their budgets. Prominent
local corporations like First Inter-state
Bank, Cenex, and the Billings
Gazette already contribute thou-sands
of dollars to Montana State
University-Billings. These funds,
however, support scholarship
funds, the Wine Festival, and the
softball field, not educational ex-penses
per se. In fact, according
to recent comments of Joe Howell,
Professor of Mathematics and Co-chair
of the University Budget Com-mittee,
"The operating budget of
MSU-Billings is based almost en-tirely
on general fund support from
the state and student tuition. Cor-porate
funding simply does not fig-ure
into . . . budget projections."
Even so, the positive and
negative influences of corporate
funding are considerations as the
prospect for an increase of such
funding looms over the state's
schools. Most significantly, corpo-rate
funding has potential to direct
the results of university research
and educational focus. If a particu-lar
business is funding an entire
department, is it not likely that the
curricula within that department
may become centered around the
particular criteria of the sponsoring
business? Likewise, if a research
project is funded by a corporation,
are the results going to be objec-tive
or skewed to reflect the agen-das
of that corporation? According
to Howell, "The danger is that cor-porations
increasingly set the aca-demic
research agenda to suit their
own interests, which may not be
those of society as a whole." This
is part of the impediant to free in-vestigation.
Apparently the findings
of such corporate-funded research
"may belong to the corporation,
which," according to Howell, "could
further impede scientific research."
To date, Howell says that he
has seen no such skewing of results
or aiming of curricula at MSU-Bill-ings.
And, in keeping with the os-tensible
interest of students in ob-jective
education, this present spon-sorship
without ownership should
be the norm. Despite the contribu-tions
of corporations, a genuinely
public university must consider its
responsibilities to students long
before it panders to the wishes of
its corporate contributors.
The positive impact of corpo-rate
funds is the financial burden
they absorb where they are used.
As corporate scholarship recipients,
for example, qualified students
don't pay the increased tuition from
their own funds but instead with the
corporations' sponsorships. Simi-larly
as research, activity, or facil-ity
support, corporate funds free up
university monies that may other-wise
not be available to the imme-diate
concern of education.
Corporate funding appears in-evitable.
But, if it continues to be
handled in the present no-strings-attached
way, corporate funding
stands to become increasingly in-strumental
in Montana's higher edu-cation
system.
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[ NEWS 1-0
The Troubits of Traveling By Air
November 4, 2002
Brett Harrison
Staff Writer
The birth of the Internet has
spawned many sites that claim to save
consumers money, and airline tickets
are no exception. Cheaptrips.com
promises up to 85% percent off inter-national
flights and up to 50% off do-mestic
flights. This site also requires a
membership fee of $29 a year and
claims if the same ticket with the same
itinerary is found at the same price or
cheaper within 24 hours the lower price
will be met or the full price will be re-funded.
This is a nice service, but if
you have to pay for it are you really
saving much? And unless you spend
a bunch of time looking around, how
do you really know what you saved?
Another popular site for deals on
airfare as well as car rentals, hotel
deals, and vacation packages is
www.priceline.com . This site is auc-tion
style in which you name a price
for tickets. If an airline accepts it, you
are notified and your credit card is au-tomatically
charged. Since you are au-tomatically
billed this services makes
it difficult to get a quote and compari-son
shop. There area number of other
web sites that offer sales on tickets,
including www.travelocity.com ,
www.trip.com , www.bestfares.com ,
just to name a few. Also, try the indi-vidual
airline company's web site. Most
of these ask for basic information like
departure and arrival dates and cities,
and then provide a list of travel options
and prices to chose from. These sites
are good for people willing to invest
Local radio station Hot 101.9
and Pepsi-Cola took a stand
against breast cancer last month,
which was Breast Cancer Aware-ness
Month. To remind women to
receive regular mammogram
checks for the disease, they have
organized a collection of used
over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders
to fly as flags in support of victims,
and also to encourage widespread
awareness of cancer. I spoke with
Casey Paul of Hot 101.9 about the
bras hung on sign posts at Dick's
24th Street Conoco. Every week
the crew at Hot 101.9, led by Cap-tain
Mike himself, hangs the
the time and effort to do the research,
check for deals, and make all neces-sary
arrangements themselves.
There are a number of travel
agents in Billings, all found in the Yel-low
pages of the phone book in addi-tion
to being listed with links at
www.flybillings.com/tickets.html .
Travel agents are a full service busi-ness
that will help with problems be-fore,
during, and after travel arrange-ments
are made through them. They
not only sell complete vacation pack-ages
but also sell just airline tickets.
They can even help with hotel reser-vations
and car rentals as well as get
good rates and help with travel direc-tions
and local area maps of travel
destinations. Because they under-stand
all the rules and are aware of all
upcoming sales events, they can work
to get the lowest fair and help with the
best times for departure and arrival.
Security atthe Billings Logan In-ternational
Airport continues to oper-ate
at an enhanced security level and
plans to continue indefinitely. This
means all vehicles entering the termi-nal
loop will be searched for bombs.
Visitors are not allowed to leave their
car unattended in front of the termi-nal;
however, passenger drop-offs and
pickups are allowed at the curbside.
All airline passengers can expect to
be searched before boarding and,
consequently, passengers are re-quested
to show up two hours before
their departure.
As reported in the Oct. 18 Wash-ington
Post, the Transportation Secu-
*Administration (TSA) is warning air-weekly
addition of bras around a
promotional sign at the gas sta-tion.
The grand goal is 500 bras,
and so far around half have been
collected. The 500 weathered
bras flew in the wind at the end of
October. Bras can be sent or
dropped off for donation to The
Granite Building, 222 N. 32nd
Street, Floor #10, Billings, MT,
59101. Here they will be counted
diligently (even if they are really old
and crappy!). Bring in your K-Mart
special with the cruel underwire
poking out, or even that thing with
the tassels that you never really
wear, and get involved with this
important cause today! '
Please look for next issues
conclusion to this article.
ports that they must meet the Dec. 31
deadline to screen all baggage for
bombs because attempts in Congress
to exempt some airports have stalled.
Installing bomb scanning equipment
and personnel to operate them will not
only be expensive but time consuming,
in some cases requiring major construc-tion.
The TSA was created in the wake
of the terrorist attacks, and one of its
jobs is to inspect all passenger luggage
for bombs by Dec. 31. The TSA is also
charged with hiring and training new fed-eral
screeners who would replace those
with private security outfits. According
to Tom Binford, assistant director ofAvia-tion
at the Billings Logan International
Airport, TSA personnel do not expect
any significant problems in meeting the
Dec. 31 deadline for screening all bag-gage.
Binford also has said the feder-alization
of the security screening per-sonnel
in Billings occurred the week of
Sept. 23, 2002, well ahead of the Nov.
19 deadline.
Many people view the increase in
security as a hassle and have increased
the amount of time and miles they are
willing to drive before considering flying.
There have been many follies reported
illustrating the numbness of some
screener's brains. But they have imple-mented
some changes in hopes of in-corporating
some kind of common
sense in their jobs. For example, they
will no longer ask stupid questions like
"Has anyone unknown to you asked
you to carry an item on this flight?" They
have also rethought some of the re-strictions
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30 of this year 783,000 knives, 31,000
box cutters, and 813 guns have been
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MSU-Billings Students take part in "Tartuffe"
Staff Writer
One day two weeks ago,
Communications students cam-pus-
wide were ecstatic to hear an
announcement from "Tartuffe" di-rector
Randall Pugh. Randy re-quested
professors to ralease their
students from class for a short 15
minute media production to be
used in the upcoming play. A
psuedo-Baptist revival scene was
set, with multitalented Brad Porter
playing the deliciously sinful
Tartuffe, modernized from Moliere
into a traveling miracle worker al-ways
looking for a poor sucker to
dupe. Several acting students
were pulled from the front rows of
-thwamphitheater, .(for those who
don't know, our amphitheater is
that big scoop out of the hillside
between the student parking lot
and the L.A. Building, with a cement
box in the center). Tartuffe pro-ceeded
to "save" them, and as the
enraptured crowd cried to the Lord
for mercy, he knelt with them and
slammed their heads up and down
violently towards the ground, pre-sumably
to make them not want to
sin again (or maybe not be saved
again?) Characters from the play
were also "purified" for sins such
as shopping and smoking addic-tions,
and the occasional lechery,
as in the case Dustin Olsen, who
plays Orgon in "Tartuffe".
The mini-production was vid-eotaped
and will be used as back-ground
media for this hilarious
play. I encourage everyone to join
in the good, clean, fun; even
though it may not be,that clean,
Tartuffe will prove to be a master-piece
in performance.
[ NEWS ]----10
November 4, 2002
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Tartuffe: Born Again, Here on Campus
Press
Release
The Drama Committee of
ASMSU-Billings presents
Tartuffe: Born Again, a modern
adaptation of the Moliere clas-sic,
by Freyda Thomas. The
production runs November 20-
23, at 7:30 pm, in Petro theatre
on the MSU-Billings campus.
Communications and theatre
lecturer Randall Pugh directs.
Ticket prices are $8 for general
admission and $5 for students,
senior citizens and the MSU-B
community. Watch for special
two-for-one discount coupons.
Theatregoers should note that
the curtain for this production
will be one half hour earlier
than usual (7:30 pm). The show
contains partial nudity and
adult situations. Parental guid-ance
is recommended.
In this wickedly funny
translation, the title character,
"Tartuffe," is a recently de-frocked
televangelist (reminis-cent
of Jim Baker or Jimmy
Schwaggert), who bilks the vul-nerable
and unsuspecting pa-trons
of his TV crusade for per-sonal
gain. He invades the
household of a wealthy busi-nessman-
turned-TV producer,
and begins broadcasting ge-neric
spiritual drivel through a
program called "Eternal Bliss."
Of course, the broadcast is
only a front for soliciting cash
contributions to support a se-ries
of non-existent social and
humanitarian programs. In his
spare time, the charlatan
"Tartuffe" also proceeds to gain
title to the TV studio, complete
with an unlimited expense ac-count
and to implicate his em-ployer
in a political scandal
while attempting to seduce his
wife. All the elements of French
farce are preserved in this pro-duction,
including thwarted
young lovers, strategic
"disinformation," and an elev-enth
hour rescue and reversal.
The MSU-Billings produc-tion
of Tartuffe: Born Again fea-tures
college and community
actors; including Patrick Wil-son,
Brad Porter, Heather Saw-yer,
Dustin Olsen, Christi
Fisher, Jessica Verzatt, Justin
Sian, Megan Schultz, Lauren
Moreno, Deryk Cunningham,
Lisa Brayco, Anna O'Donnell,
and others. The assistant di-rector
is Kristen Horn, set and
lighting designer is Paul
Jangula, costume designer is
Avery Bandel, and the stage
manager is Lexi Syme.
For further information on
this production, please contact
Randy Pugh at 657-1722.
Dean Spotlight
College of Arts and Sciences
Jed Barton
Staff Writer
Daniel Zirker, the dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences
here at MSU-B, has an adminis-trative
task slightly different from
those of his colleagues at the
Colleges of Education and Hu-man
Services, Business, Profes-sional
Studies and Lifelong
Learning and Technology. As
Zirker says. "the College of Arts
and Sciences is not united
around a group of interrelated oc-cupations.
Rather, it spans a
wide range of subjects."
The College of Arts and Sci-ences
is the oldest and largest
college at MSU-B and has two
major components: General
Education and the degree pro-grams.
Zirker says "One of our
primary objectives is to serve the
university and its goals by teach-ing
courses that fulfill the general
education requirements toward
graduation."
The College of Arts and Sci-ences
offers majors and minors
in many academic areas, includ-ing
History, Political Science, Art,
Music, English, Music, Math-ematics,
Communications, Sociol-ogy,
History, Native American Stud-ies,
Psychology and the Physical
Sciences. "One of the things that we
do with our degree programs is to
focus on pre-professional areas such
as pre-law and pre- med," said Zirker.
Zirker, who is a graduate of the
University of Montana and holds a
Doctorate from the University of
Alberta in Edmonton, came to MSU-B
in 1998 from the University of
Idaho, where he was the Director of
the University Honors program, as
well as professor of Political Science.
At MSU-B he currently is the Direc-tor
of the Honors Program, Political
Science professor and interim direc-tor
of the Environmental Science pro-gram,
as well as dean.
With regards to the future of the
College of Arts and Sciences, Zirker
said he looks forward to creation of
a new Masters degree in Public Ad-ministration,
and the completion of
the LA building renovation. He adds
that the College of Arts and Sciences
will continue to serve the people of
the state of Montana by providing a
variety of curricular choices, all of
which are academically excellent, as
we have done in the past.
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The Billings chapter of
NORML, or National Organiza-tion
for the Reformation of Mari-juana
Laws, headed by Adam
Jones of MSU-Billings, has
been co-hosting several events
to further their cause lately. And
what is their cause? According
to Jones, NORML's main focus
at this time is reforming the in-famous
Higher Education Act.
This Act limits financial aid stu-dents
with prior drug convic-tions,
and varies with each in-dividual.
Jones has been ap-pealing
to the MSU-B student
government for over two
months to vote on a petition to
reform these laws. MSU-B has
been somewhat unresponsive
thus far, which could be a re-sult
of NORML being such a
controversial organization.
Jones believes that keeping con-victed
drug offenders from their
rightful education is wrong, and is
fighting along with Green Party Can-didate
Scott Proctor to change it.
Friends of Scott Proctor recently put
on a multi-band concert/gathering to
support legalization of marijuana for
recreational use on the state ballots,
as three states have done already.
Appearing at the Groovin' Green
Party were local favorites, Cold Snap
9 and the psychedelic Lupian Zoo.
NORML's future plans include
a concert featuring Grudge on April
20. They are still looking for a place
to get down that will allow alcohol to
be served, (at the request of
Grudge.) Also, Jones is appealing
to the Student Government for funds
to journey to Anaheim, Calif., this
Nov. for the Marijuana Policy Project
Conference, where Bill Marr will
speak as an advocate to marijuana
reformation.
Jennifer Fenton
InterTribal Indian Club
Looking for a little cultural di-versity?
Inter-Tribal Indian club is
maybe what you are looking for.
The club is looking to spread a
little diversity and heritage to the
MSU-B campus. Officers of the
club are President Lucy Real Bird,
Vice-President Dennis Beau-mont.
Secretary Francis Takes
Enemy, and Sergeant at arms
Jericho Laforge, William Snell II,
and Althea James. Faculty advi-sors
are Quintin Gilham, and Dr.
Jeff Sanders. The club meets ev-ery
Wed at 3:30p.m. in the Mis-souri
room located in the SUB.
Everyone is welcome to join (you
do not have to be Native Ameri-can).
This year the club is trying
to raise enough money to hold the
annual Pow-Wow April 11-12
2003. They would also like to hold
a health conference two days be-fore
the Pow-Wow. They are rais-ing
this money with bake sales
and Indian Taco sales. They are
also trying to hold a fun run and a
three- on- three-basketball tour-nament.
They will be hosting a
bingo night in Nov., participating
in the Holiday Parade, and hold-ing
more Indian Taco sales
(yum). President Real Bird says.
"We just want to try and raise
some cultural diversity among
the students on the campus. We
want them to know a little more
about our heritage, be more cul-turally
aware." They hope the
year will be a successful one and
are hoping more students will
join. So if you are looking for
something new and want to
learn more about another heri-tage,
feel free to attend a meet-ing.
You may learn something
new and meet some great
people.
Art Students League
Are you an aspiring artist look-ing
for a place to show your work,
wanting to see the artwork of oth- -
ens, or just mingle with people who
share a common interest? Maybe
art Students League (ASL) is just
the club you're looking for. ASL,
headed by President Kirk Peterson,
with Vice- President Adrienne
Loveridge, Secretary Carole
Eggum, Treasurer Jennifer Beck,
and faculty advisor Peter Warren,
meet every Friday at 12:50 p.m. in
room 309 of McMullen Hall. Any-body
is welcome to join; there is a
$7 per year fee. This year the ASL
helped de.corate for Beaux-Arts Ball
held for the Yellowstone Art Museum.
They will also be sponsored by an
art auction on Dec. 6. The auctior
will take place at the Broadway Build-ing
downtown. The auction is in con-junction
with the Downtown Billings
Association Artwalk and the Christ-mas
Stroll. Interested students must
have their artwork submitted by Nov.
22. Each student who submits work
will receive two complimentary tick-ets
to the event. With the profits from
the auction the students hope to buy
new equipmerlt, have workshops.
bring in visiting artists, and begin stu-dent
scholarships. They will also fea-ture
an exhibit at the Art Gallery irk
Red Lodge, trying to take some trips
to other art museums in the Unitec
States, and maybe bringing in some
guest artists. The goal of ASL is tc
give art students an opportunity tc
share their art with others and to be
involved in the community and corn-munity
art gatherings. President
Peterson said, "The goal of ASL is
to get MSU-B art students involvec
in the community and to have the op-portunity
to share our work with the
public." If this sounds like something
you would be interested in attend a
meeting or give them a call.
Staff Writer
is Born
Press
Release
A new organization is begin-ning
on the Campus of Montana
State University- Billings. The So-ciety
of Success and Leadership
will set up informational booths in
the COB and SUB Nov 4 and 6.
The first meeting of the new chap-ter
will be Nov. 6 at 7:00 PM.
The mission of the Society
reads: "To help you create the life
you desire by giving you the sup-port,
motivation, and tools to
achieve your goals. "
This organization was created
through a nationwide effort of pro-fessional
motivational speakers
who want to truly impact students
on a long-term basis. The Society
brings continuity between presen-tation
and follow-through for stu-dents.
Students can take action on
what they have learned: it is also a
more cost effective way for schools
to obtain quality speakers who pro-vide
impact for students in power-ful
and lasting ways. The Society
has changed the face of motivational
presentations.
The new chapter hopes to help in-terested
students become the lead-ers
of tomorrow.
Club Highlights
[ Campus Life
SOSL: A New Club
November 4, 2002
COLLEGE BOWL 2003 OCOLLEGE
Press BOWL
Release
Montana State University-Billings
will compete in College Bowl, "the Varsity
Sport of the Mind." COLLEGE BOWL is
a game of academic knowledge and
quick recall. Now in its 27Th year nation-ally.
the COLLEGE BOWL Campus Pro-gram
is a popular tradition on America's
campuses. MSU-B is among nearly 300
institutions of higher education playing
COLLEGE BOWL this season.
Like the popular radio and televi-sion
series of the 50s. 60s, and 70s. the
game features two teams of four players
each competing to score points to Toss-
Up and Bonus questions. The questions
cover every conceivable topic from litera-ture.
science. history. geography. religion,
social sciences. multicultural topics, and
the arts to popular culture, sports. and cur-rent
events.
COLLEGE BOWL is organized and
administered with the cooperation of the
Association of College Unions — Interna-tional
(ACU-I). Our Campus Tournament
is run by the Student Union and Activi-ties
Office.
Competition at MSU-B begins
with the Campus Tournament to select
the Varsity Team. The Campus Tour-nament
is scheduled for Wednesday,
November 13, 2002 from 6:30 —11:00
PM. OurVarsity Team and/or high scor-ers
will advance to the Regional Tour-nament,
February 21-23, 2003. This
year's Regionals will be held at Univer-sity
of Washington in Seattle.
The National Championship Tour-nament,
scheduled forApril 25-27, 2003
at the University of Pennsylvania in Phila-delphia,
features the 15 Regional Cham-pions.
Recruitment for students, faculty.
and staff to assist with the campus tour-nament
has also begun. Anyone willing
to volunteer to help with MSU-B COL-LEGE
BOWL please contact us.
To sign up for MONTANA STATE
UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS COLLEGE
BOWL competition, contact Christina
and Noelle at 657-2387 or come by the
SUB 219 by November 5, 2002.
MSU-B is Holding
Its Campus Tournment
On Wednesday, Nov. 13
From 6:30 to 11:00 Pm
In the Lewis and Clark Room
To register your team
Or
Volunteer to help out
Stop by Sub 219
by Tuesday Nov. 5th
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Rementber the ntersession
Campus Life November 4, 2002
Campus Beat
Trac Schwei • ert
Here is your current install-ment
of the happenings on
campus. Lets all get involved
and show our support for the
various organizations. The fol-lowing
activities are open to all
participants and you are en-couraged
to join.
The Music Department's
previously scheduled Nov. 1
concert has been changed. The
Choir Concert will begin at 7:30
pm in Cisel Recital Hall.
Reminder that the United
Campus Ministry is still meet-ing
at noon, every Wednesday
in th€ SUB Atrium for their
Pizza bible study. Also on
Wednesday nights the Disciple-ship
Group meets in the Madi-son
Room for discussion,
prayer, and bible study. For
more information you can con-tact
Kim at 657-2165 or by
email, unitedcampusministryA
hotmail.com .
ASMSUB, Student Senate
is still holding their weekly
meetings every Tuesday at 5
pm. Everyone is welcome to
join in on the meetings and
bring up any viable concerns
from campus. If you are too shy
to directly speak in front of the
Senators, then you are also wel-come
to leave your concern with
Valerie Sperry in the ASMSUB
office, room 213. Also con-gratulations
to the Senate Of-fice
on receiving the rank of
Grand Marshall in the upcoming
Holiday Parade. Thc, parade is
set for Nov. 29 downtown, and
any organization on campus is
welcome to participate.
Student Union Activities
Council (SUAC) has set the
2002-2003 Movie Series sched-ule.
On Dec. 5 SUAC will be
showing Lilo and Stitch at 6:30
pm; the movie is free to everyone.
Jennifer Fenton
Staff Writer
a h The Garbage
Thing? Have you ever asked yourself
that question? Many students have
asked, but I hold the answer. The gar-bage
thing is a sculpture that was de-signed
and built by Cory Wagner and
Louis Delgato. The sculpture, entitled
2001: Waste Odyssey, is the result of
an inspiration that was given to them
during an environmental art class with
guest lecturer Lynn Hull, who was on
campus last fall. The class is offered
every couple of years and is taught by
Dr. Patricia Vettle-Becker. Wagner and
Delqato thought of marry things that
were on our campus and settled upon
Styrofoam. They wanted to think of a
way they could memorialize the gar-bage.
They got every piece of
Styrofoam from the cafeterias on cam-us,
washed them out to the best of
eir abilities, and began constructing.
ne purpose was for the public to see
ow nature takes on garbage, and
e things they use and th
everday. People may not think a
the one thing they throw away b
adds up when everybody throws o
thing away. Wagner stated, "Most s
dents on campus don't think about
much less what it can be. We just w
people to think about it and the en
ronmental issues on our campus. C
ative people are the ones who co
up with the solutions. By visualizing
how much Styrofoam is thrown a
daily. "Maybe next time you'll cho
plastic". Wagner and Delgato got
proval to place their sculpture by F-itySerNices,
The funding for the proj
came from the art department
a donated fund. The two also
a grade for their idea and design.
Next time you are walking be-tvveen
the LA building end the Scien
Hall or Education building, stop a
take a minute to see just what we
doing to our environment and jus
much Styrofoam is thrown away i
day. Take time to re
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Evan Slagsvold
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"Halloween 2001, the volunteer club went trick or
treating for canned goods for the Rescue Mission. It
was fun, but all the cans were heavy!"
Kate Dinsmore
(Freshman, Biology)
"Last year, I made - homemade caramel apples with
friends. We also carved pumpkins. It was a lot of
fun!"
Laurel Lawrence
(Freshman, Human Services)
"I went to a party at an abandoned house and it was so
freaky. Because it was Halloween night and all."
Liz Rensvold
(Freshman, Chemistry)
"Building a haunted house and acting in it to raise
money for NHS. We did such a great job that the little
kids wouldn't enter. It was fun to scare your family and
friends!"
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November 4, 2002
Student Health Fair Photo Poll: What is your most
memorable Halloween?
Press By MiSuk Kim
Release
On Nov. 21 from 7am-2pm,
there will be a blood analysis for
all students located in the SUB
Ballroom. Qualified health pro-fessionals
will be provided for
the blood analysis. The cost of
this is determined by which
blood test is ordered by each in-dividual
student, but estimates
range from $10-$22. This is a
great time to evaluate your in-ternal
health and to hopefully
begin a new way of life. The
blood analysis
will enhance the health and well
being of MSU-Billings students
by raising awareness of possible
underlying health concerns in
relation to overall health status.
This activity will also provide
preventative suggestions to in-creasing
physical wellness, as
qualified health personnel will
provide follow-up counseling.
The blood analysis being offered
should not be confused with
STD's, HIV, AIDS, or drug test-ing.
Those tests will not be
taken. The type of tests that will
be offered include Complete
Blood Count, Cholesterol, Glu-cose,
Liver and Kidney Function
Tests, Prostate Cancer Screen-ing,
and Thyroid Stimulating
Hormone Testing.
To give an example of why this
test would be necessary, let me
tell you about my personal tes-timony.
This past summer, I was
a student at University of Ne-braska
- Lincoln. I took a Nutri-tion
and Wellness course where
one of the projects was to
get a blood analysis and do a
personal evaluation of my un-derlying
health. As a 21-year-old
athlete and one who eats
well and works out regularly, I
assumed I had no worries con-cerning
my health. When the
results came back, I was
shocked to learn that my total
cholesterol levels were far
above the normal range for a
young female. There are sev-eral
factors that play a role in a
woman's health to help keep
cholesterol levels low,
but to my surprise I did not con-sider
heredity as one of those
factors. Having high cholesterol
has the potential to negatively
affect my health in the future.
Without having taken a blood
analysis, I would have no idea
that I needed to pay special at-tention
to my diet. I'm thankful
that I am aware of my choles-terol
status so that I may take
preventative measures to help
prepare for my years to come. I
highly recommend getting your
blood analyzed so that you, too,
can be aware of your health be-cause
PREVENTION IS THE
BEST WAY TO AVOID HEALTH
DISPARITIES.
Jessie Kremensek
(Sophomore, Elementary Education)
"Halloween 1991, my sister had the chicken pox, so she
stayed home. I went out trick or treating with some
friends. When I came home, my sister had more candy
than I did, but she shared with me."
Nichole Alley
(Senior, Marketing & Psychology)
1998, 1 won three costume contests at different places in
NJ. I was a flapper and I won a $100 gift certificate for
dinner, a hibachi grill, and a $50 drink tab! Yeah!"
Pamela Conner
(Junior, Accounting)
"1998 Halloween party. I went as a witch and had a
professional makeup artist do my nose and a mole on my
cheek. Nobody recognized me. That was really neat!"
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he upcoming election candidates held a forum sponsored by ASMSU-B on
Oct 16, 21, and 24.
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Initiatives for November 5 elections
When going to the polls
Nov. 5 keep in mind there are
other things that you have to
ask yourself besides who will
represent you best. The fol-lowing
initiatives and mill lev-ies
will also be on the ballot.
During these unstable times
we have to keep in mind what
we need throughout the com-munity
and what we can put
aside.
IR — 117
Title: Repeal HB 474 re-latin,
g to electrical energy
Author: Rep. Michelle
Lee, 213 West Geyser Street,
Livingston, MT 59047
Type: Referendum
Status: ON BALLOT 31,
645 signatures, 58 districts
qualified (final total)
1 — 145
Title: Acquire hydroelec-tric
dams that are in the pub-lic
interest to acquire and op-erate
them for the benefit of
Montanans.
Author: Sen. Ken Toole,
P.O. Box 1462, Helena, MT
59624
Type: Initiative
Status: ON BALLOT
27,716 signatures, 52 districts
qualified
I — 146
Title: Establish a state-wide
tobacco-use prevention
program using tobacco settle-ment
funds.
Author: Alliance for a
Healthy Montana, c/o Jonathon
Motl, 401 North Last Chance
Gulch, Helena, MT 59601
Type: Initiative
Status: ON BALLOT
22.536 signatures certified, 48
districts qualified
Yellowstone County
County Public Health &
Safety Mill Levy Election Pro-posal
Shall the voters of
Yellowstone County authorize a
permanent increase in the
County Public Health and
Safety mill levy of 4.75 mills es-timated
to be $975,000 to sup-port
mandatory service? These
dollars would support the
Yellowstone City-County Health
Department in developing a re-sponse
mechanism for bio-ter-rorism
including prevention, de-tection
and follow-up for com-municable
and weaponries dis-eases;
increase preparedness
for mass immunizations and
public health assurance; and
services to seniors and families
in Yellowstone County. The fi-nancial
impact on a $100,000
house will be approximately
$11.35 and for a $200,000
house it will be approximately
$22.70 per year.
City of Billings
General Obligation Bond
Election Library Bonds
Shall the Council be au-thorized
to issue and sell gen-eral
obligation bonds of the
City for $12 million, bearing in-terest
at a rate to be deter-mined
by the Council, payable
during a term of no more than
20 years and redeemable on
any interest payment date af-ter
one-half of their term for the
purpose of acquiring property
for and designing, construct-ing,
and equipping a new li-brary
building and paying costs
associated with the sale and is-suance
of general obligation
bonds and authorizing the levy
of additional mills over the ex-isting
and approved charter
levy limitation to pay principal
of and interest of the bonds?
Referendum on Resolu-tion
No. 02 — 17836
Billings City Resolution
No. 02 — 17836 authorizes the
introduction of fluoride in the
City's water system. If a ma-jority
of registered voters sup-port
the referendum, it will re-peal
the resolution. Passage
of the referendum will also pro-hibit
fluoridation for a period of
two years. The question is
whether the Council's decision
to pass the fluoride resolution
should be sustained. A "For"
vote sustains the Council's ac-tions
and permits fluoride in the
City's water supply. An
"Against" vote supports the ref-erendum
and prohibits intro-duction
of fluoride into the
City's water supply.
Christina Frazier, Green Party Candidate
A J Aficl
Schools
ieletti candidate, Superintendent o
t I J;,N1 Nt
Theresa Putman candi date, Justice of the Peace
Angelo Bianco (R) candidate, HD 16 *
re You Ready to Vote?
Candidates grilled on MSU-B campus
\/ D
The ASMSU-Billings Stu-dent
Gov-ernment,
Legislative/
Legal Com-mittee
held
Open Can-didate
Fo-rums
Oct.
16, 21, and
24. These
forums
were held
to open up
the lines of
communi-cation
be-tween
the
running
candidates
and stu-dents
here on campus.
On Oct. 17 the same for-mat
was used but Chancellor
Ron Sexton spoke to the stu-dents
as an
interim, for
the candi-dates.
As
he sat in a
chair almost
surrounded
by a dozen
or more stu-dents
he
spoke on
how to ap-proach
•the
crunching
tuition prob-lems.
He
also raised
the question
of how to
and how not
to approach
the individu-als
who are
running for
us in this upcoming Nov. 5
election.
There Dr. Sexton sat and
as he spoke about higher edu-cation
a woman who will re-main
anonymous bombarded
him with questions on why we
couldn't be more like
Massachusetts's school sys-tem.
Dr. Sexton says "It may
be a bit more expensive but we
appreciate our educational
system."
Someone else noted the
fact that most of MA's school
system's
are pri-
Nate and
"you can't
get a
good
public
educa-tion
in
that
state," as
pointed
out by a
MSU — B
student.
Dates
were also
sched-uled
to
set up
tables for the candidates to
hand out information to the stu-dents.
These dates were Oct.
28 and Oct. 29. This allowed
some
s t u -
dents
w h o
were not
able to
attend
the can-didate
forums
to get
t h e
views of
their fu-ture
rep-resenta-tives
be-fore
go-ing
to
t h e
polls.
The
follow-ing
will
share more insight into what a
couple of the running candi-dates
for the U.S. Senate seat
are for and against. This in-formation
was taken from vari-ous
pamphlets from the candi-dates
and the Decision 2002
KULR — 8 News Candidate and
Initiative Information Book.
Max Sieben Baucus,
fighting for people. Being ap-pointed
to chair the Senate Fi-nance
Committee, the most in-fluential
committee in Congress,
didn't happen over night. It was
years of yard work, of putting
America and Montana first. He
wants to make Montana an even
better place to raise a family.
- He would like to see every Mon-tana
family to have a good in-come;
quality, affordable health
care; and a world-class educa-tion
for our kids. His number one
priority is jobs, more good-pay-ing
jobs for Montana.
Mike Taylor, Republican,
candidate
for Mon-tana
U.S.
Senate.
His edu-cation
goes
through
high
school
gradua-tion.
In
1 9 9 6
Mike Tay-lor
was
elected to
the Mon-tana
State
Senate
repre-senting
Lake County. In his experience
doing business in Montana and
around the country, Mike learned
that Montana's tax and regulatory
climate was
making it less
attractive than
other states for
businesses
and new jobs.
So he set out to
fix that in the
state Senate,
and played an
important role
in the Senate's
effort to pass
new legislation
for economic
development.
Mike's a third
generation
Montanan,
whose Chris-tian
upbringing,
personal experience, and knowl-edge
of the legislative process
gives him the perfect background
to help create more jobs in Mon-tana.
Other candidates in the U.S.
Senate Race are Libertarian
Stan Jones, Bob Kelleher for
the Green Party, and Mary
Charbonneau as a write-in can-didate.
Democrat, is the current Mon-tana
U.S. Senator and is running
for another term. He received
an LLB at Stanford University
Law School, 1967 and an AB,
Economics
fr om
Stanford
University,
1964.
Com-ing
from a
six-genera-tion
family,
he learned
at an early
age the val-ues
of hard
work, hon-esty,
and
common
sense. He
learned the
importance
of doing
what's right
- in service to church, to family,
to community, and service to our
country. In Montana, our lands
define us as a people. He loves
en oves
Kimberly Minette-Lynne Ber
When doves cry
They do not see the light
They hinder the night
Cease the day
Early in the day you see
The pinkish morning sky
You can look into that skyline
See a speck flying through
Even then begin your thoughts
Clearly and evenly
Take a deep breath
Crisp and cool air;
Streaming in
Can u feel it
The soft air on your skin
The dove's tear has moisten
the morning air
And given the day
strength
Creativity ]-0 November 4, 2002
Untitled Circle my shoes Mr. Edison.
A hat ate my salad
Goats eat pencils
Beans!
Love is a peach
-What is the meaning of pizza?
Anonymous inattentive student
Call For Submissions
Poetry
Creative Essays
Short Stories
Art
Photos
To have your work
considered for publication
in your campus newspaper,
The Retort
Drop it off @ room 225 in
the Student Union Building,
attn: Deanna
Email it to:
deannautroskeyahoo.com
Be sure to include your name,
phone number. and email address
with your submission.
Directions Nicole Tobler
Rhetorical surveillances
resolutions regarded carefully
perceptions deceived
another episode taped
no ground gained
code red and red deer
stand out like a thief beams of
day
occupying streams of blood
in the mind
delusions are illusions
stimulating tag team games of
youth
playing with poke-a-dots
with the same colored markers
distributed perplexities
teasing and twisting yarn
into interrupted smoothness
adrift adversaries
rhetorical dangers
incomplete resolutions
dance like a seed in the wind
this way and that direction
with no sense of systemized
maps
[ A&E
Lifehouse's "Stanly Climbfall" Disappotnts
November 4, 2002
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
Lifehouse has returned with
their second CD Stanly Climbfall.
Two have years passed by be-fore
the long awaited CD was fi-nally
produced. After purchas-ing
this CD I was simply disap-pointed.
Their original CD, No
Name Face, is a classic that
people should have. This CD,
however, is not.
When I first began to listen
to the CD I immediately recog-nized
the first track, "Spin,"
which has been played quite of-ten
on the radio. I liked the
song, so I just knew that the CD
would be awesome. Unfortu-nately,
"Spin" is one of only two
songs on the record that is
worth listening too. I feel com-pletely
ripped off; I should have
just simply downloaded a copy
of the song and saved myself
ten bucks. After torturing my-self
with the next seven songs,
I finally heard a song that had
a catchy chorus and a good
beat. The song "Just Another
Name," is the only other song
on the CD that I enjoyed. Ev-ery
other song sounded exactly
the same, it was like the song
never ended. I know that the
radio stations are going to pick
this CD apart and play every
song, torturing the public with
its annoying lyrics and sound.
If the third song, "Sky is Fall-ing,"
wasn't bad enough the
first time, Lifehouse added an
acoustic version of it as a bo-nus
track.
Now that I have voiced my
opinion, I know some people will
argue that the CD is not as bad
as I say it is. Compared to No
Name Face this CD is just aw-ful.
I guess we'll have to wait
another two years to see if lead
sing/song writer Jason Wade
can save Lifehouse from be-coming
just another one hit
wonder.
Sex Scenes Stolen by Video Vandals
Jamie Porter
Staff Editorial
How would it feel to spent
all of your money and a whole
lot of time creating something
until finally it was just the way
you intended it to be? Would
you feel proud, accomp!ished,
gifted or maybe successful and
fulfilled? Now how would it feel
if someone else came along and
took your creation, altered, and
sold it for a profit? This is ex-actly
the case with the film in-dustry
today.
Movie rental companies
across the nation are surfacing
with edited videos and DVDs.
Their argument is that people
are demanding "clean" versions
of popular movies. This might
be true but what about copyright
infringement?
Ray Lines, CEO of Pleas-ant
Grove-based CleanFlicks,
seems to think no crime is be-ing
committed. Lines' attorney,
Jeff Aldous, recently inter-viewed
with Mark Eddington of
The Salt Lake Tribune. In that
interview Aldous argued, "Ev-erybody
wins. Moviemakers sell
another video or DVD, the cus-tomer
gets an edited movie, and
my guy makes a small profit."
The keyword here is profit.
The most attempted argu-ment
regarding this matter is
that ownership of an item allows
a person to do what they wish
with the item. This being true, a
person could legally edit their
own movies. But could that per-son
legally charge other people
money to watch their "clean"
videos? The answer is no. So
how does CleanFlicks get away
this? By considering themselves
a co-op. This means that any-body
with a membership to
CleanFlicks technica ∎ ly owns
the movies they rent.
Okay, so let's say I buy into
that stretch of an argument; I
still have to wonder about copy-right
laws. Many critics say that
Lines, along with owners of
similar companies, might be
taking their editing too far, at
least where DVDs are con-cerned.
One such critic, Bryce
Jolley, owner of several Salt
Lake Valley stores that carry ed-ited
videos, also discussed his
opinion with Mark Eddington of
The Salt Lake Tribune.
"With edited videos, we
purchase the original tapes
through regular sources so Hol-lywood
gets the revenue. Then
we record the edited version
over the original copy. You
can't do that with a DVD. You
must create or copy a DVD
movie onto a blank DVD, which
puts you into the [unautho-rized]
duplication business and
raises copyright concerns."
There is an alternative to
this permanent and possibly it
legal tampering that I cannot
argue against. MovieMask,
owned by Trilogy studios, of-fers
a software program that
allows the user to select his
own desired level of comfort
regarding language, violence,
and adult situations. Breck
Rice, co-founder and chief op-erating
officer of Trilogy Stu-dios,
was recently interviewed
by Brian McTavish of The Bill-ings
Gazette.
"We never alter or change
the original DVD," Rice says.
"So I can rent a DVD from
Blockbuster or Hollywood Video,
put it into my player, play it back
at my own personal comfort
level, take the movie C'Jt and it's
th3 ;i-Ame movie that I rented."
I understand that not every-body
enjoys films on the same
level but I have to convey my
concern when a person's free-ddm
of creative expression is
manipulated. Just take a mo-ment
to think about all of the
things in this world that are origi-nal
works of art. Literature, paint-ings,
architecture, sculptures,
even the color you chose to paint
your house. It is wrong to alter
another person's art. We as a
society need to accept that vir-tually
everything carries the po-tential
to be offensive to some-one.
It is our responsibility to do
the research and make con-scious
choices on what we are
willing to open ourselves up to.
She Said
Jamie Porter
Staff Writer
He Said
Richard Castillo
Staff Writer
[ A&E November 4, 2002
Just a Busted Old Car: "Formula 51"
Formula for Disaster
With all due respect to
Samuel L. Jackson, "Formula
51 - could definitely be con-sidered
the worst film of the
year.
This poor attempt at an
action/comedy is about an
American master chemist,
Elmo McElroy (Jackson). who
travels to England in order to
sell his formula for a new de-signer
drug in exchange for
$20 million. McElroy. who
wears a kilt throughout the
majority of the film. claims to
have developed a drug 51
times stronger than cocaine,
51 times more hallucinogenic
than acid. and 51 times more
ive than ecstasy. To
add to its va u . . 5
a combination of over-the-counter
products which
makes it perfectly legal.
McElroy is followed to En-
For No One 51
How do you make a
movie with action, romance,
sex, and drugs, have it make
very little sense and still come
out looking like the original
badass? Number one, come
up with a movie like "Formula
51" and two, be Samuel L.
Jackson. Somehow this
movie entertained me even
though I had no idea what
was going on. Twenty minutes
into the film I remembered I
was actually watching a
movie.
Basically "Formula 51" is
a movie about an educated
druggie who gets busted be-fore
he can make something
of himself. To find the Ameri-can
Dream, in this case, liv-ing
in a castle in Scotland,
naked, with a golf course in
your backyard, Elmo McElroy,
played by Jackson, create's a
new super drug that by all ap-pearances
will send the mind
into the next dimension.
Through meaningless explo-sions,
arbitrary car chases
and revolting sex scenes,
McElroy finds that he has a
guardian angel sniper and a
sports crazed lowlife as his
gland by an assassin, Dakota
(Emily Mortimer), who was
hired by McElroy's former
employer. Dakota's rapid
gunfire botches the drug deal
and suddenly Jackson is on
the run.
The greater part of the
blame for this mess is being
placed on Stel Pavlou, the
man who wrote the screen-play.
According to the Holly-wood
grapevine. Pavlou ap-parently
supplied himself with
phony credentials in order to
sell this complete waste of
time .
Director Ronny Yu, well
known in the Hong Kong cin-ema,
defi-nitely
needs
with the com-pilation
of ac-tion/
comedy
European
best friends.
As the plot of
the movie de-stroys
itself,
we find
McElroy trying to find buyers
for his new super drug, POS
51. Just as you begin to get
the meaning of the movie, the
apt producers Andras Hamori,
Seaton McLean, David
Pupkewitz, and Malcolm
Kohl!, find a new, disgusting
and intellectually insulting way
to kill the bad guy.
Stuck in the movie are
stunts that will get your atten-tion
instantly. Sadly, it seems
as if the producers opened a
book of stunts and arbitrarily
pointed to the stunts they
thought would be cool, then
stuffed them into the script.
The relationships that shove
together in this film don't hit
me as appealing or in the least
bit relevant to the movie. Da-kota,
a conflicted female
sniper played by Emily
Mortimer, has history with a
Liverpool lowlife, Felix, played
by Robert Carlyle. In a strange
mix of scenes they find them-films.
This can be one of the
most difficult genres since
both elements have different
needs.
Despite the extremely
poor script and inexperienced
direction, Jackson does an
excellent job in his role as
McElroy, who is strangely
similar to his character in
"Pulp Fiction." The only set
back is that at times it can be
difficult to take him seriously
in a skirt.
This film was previously
released in the U.K. under the
title "The 51st State" since the
main character. McElroy,
claims that this is the level that
his drug will
take you to.
The name was
changed be-cause
involved were
selves falling
back in love
with each
other after
she shoots
him in the ass
from 200 meters. Truthfully, I
felt sorry for Emily, when she
had to pretend to be happy to
be making out with scrawny
little Robert. By the way,
Meatloaf makes several ap-pearances
in this movie. For
those who don't know,
Meatloaf was a really fat rock
star in the 20th Century who
tried a come back in the mid
nineties, failed and has be-come
a failed fat actor. Either
way, his performance in this
movie was cliché and annoy-ing,
and although disgusting,
his demise at the end, how-ever
ludicrius it was, put a
smile on my face.
Although Jackson is a
main character in this film he
really didn't fit. I retain all the
respect for his coolness, but
wish he could shine in a movie
that I can actually give a good
review. He walks through this
film with a golf bag slung
around his shoulder and kilt
afraid that American audiences
would not understand the title.
There is some credit due
to "Formula 51" — it is purposely
designed to be nothing more
than entertaining and it neve
claims that it will offer you
more. In this respect. the film
is a success.
I give this film one out o
five stars and I recommend tha
it is only seen after you have
seen every other movie in the
video store. The action se-quences
are as weak as the
storyline. If you are not a die-hard
Samuel L. Jackson fan,
then save your money.
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around his "arse". Although
this ensemble wardrobe was
extremely strange, Jackson
pulled it off with his own form
of Scottish pride.
I have to say that I was
entertained and I wasn't abso-lutely
put out by the fact I had
to pay for this movie. Of
course, I was entertained by
Peewee Herman as a child, so
go figure. Even though this
movie had no business in the
theatres, it would still rate
above a B movie, and if I have
to I may torture myself by see-ing
it again on video. After all
is said and done I will give this
movie two out of five stars.
The cool factor definitely pulls
at my man strings, but when
its bad, its just plain bad.
members came to center stage to
bow. It was great to see the bass
player and drummer hug; these guys
have known each other for 40 years.
All in all, this entire concert was
great. I recommend buying a CD and
let CCR take you to another world. I
know one thing; this music will
NEVER die.
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COB OPEN
HOUSE NOV. 7th
Press
Release
The COB is having an open
house to showcase the newly reno-vated
COB building. The event will
provide students, faculty and staff
from the campus community an
opportunity to meet the new COB
Dean. Dr. Joe Michels recently ac-cepted
the position and is prepared
to lead the College of Business to
the next level including AACSB ac-creditation.
Dr. Michels is already
making positive changes. We are
planning on a great turnout and
hope you will attend. The open
house is Nov. 7th from 4:00 to 6:00
PM. Simply show up at the COB
and someone will be there to greet
you. The address is 1500 Univer-sity
Drive on the Southside of Poly.
Just look for the sky bridge. Come
meet the Dean and see what he
plans for the upcoming years at the
COB.
[ A &E November 4, 2002
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
The night was October 24th
and I had the pleasure of hearing
one of the greatest rock bands ever
to play a song. Creedence
Clearwater Revisited was only a
half an hour from beginning the
awesome concert. The band I lis-tened
to was not all of the mem-bers
of the original CCR, but there
was the original bass guitarist and
drummer. At 7:33 the lights faded
and the band walked onto the
stage. Their first song "Down on the
Bayou" was awesome. I couldn't
believe the similarity between the
original singer and the new vocal-ist.
The two-hour concert began
and it was a never-ending sing-a-long
for the whole audience.
The best of the concert for any
other audience member would ob-viously
be the music, but not me.
My best entertainment was this lady
in front of me who was sloppy
drunk. It was great to watch this
beer-possessed woman dance and
shake her booty to the great sounds
pouring from the stage. After an
hour of dancing, this lady managed
to recruit more of her drunken
friends. It was a drunken waltz.
Enough about that, lets get back to
Dear Morgan and Malibu,
My roommates and I all share a
house together, and it's been great until
lately. This acquaintance of ours came
over one day, and has yet to leave! It's
been over a week already and no one
knows how to tell him, politely, that we'd
like to have our home back. He just
invites himself to stay over and sleeps
on the couch, raids our pantry, watches
TV, and goes back to the couch. I feel
bad that he doesn't have a place to go,
but this is our home, not a halfway
house. What should we do?
-Ticked Off About the Bum
Dear Ticked,
Well, let that be a lesson to you.
Next time you spark up, don't offer to
strangers, especially strangers that
aren't going to contribute to your life,
let alone your fun. As for getting rid of
him, you could always try brutal hon-esty.
Sure, it's not the nicest way to ap-proach
the issue, but apparently this
the concert.
The audience of 5,000
seemed to be pretty quiet until the
singer started to sing "Suzie Q."
This old time favorite struck a chord
in every person's soul and the whole
crowd began to sing to the familiar
"Suzie Q." CCR performed all of the
good time songs such as "Bad
Moon Rising," "Who Stopped the
Rain," "Down on the Corner" and
"Proud Mary." The famous lead gui-tarist
of the classic band, The Cars,
was pouring metal into the heads
of the amazed fans. This old dude
could play some awesome guitar.
At about 9:00 CCR left the stage
and the fans began to scream be-cause
they needed more
Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
Upon re-entrance, the crowd
went crazy. I was wondering what
song they could play that was a hit;
after all they did play 20 already. The
lights on the stage began to flash
and CCR began to play "Have You
Seen the Rain?" This is my favorite
CCR song so I immediately jumped
out of my chair and began to
scream like a 13-year-old
girl...again. After finishing that
amazing song, CCR finally left the
stage for good. At least I thought.
CCR had another encore and after
performing another hit song, the
guy's a little too thick to get the mes-sage
anyway. If honesty isn't your best
policy, subtle hints that you hate him
might be the trick. Lock up your pan-try
and your fridge, and only give your
roommates and yourself the key. Turn
the water and the electricity off when
you guys aren't home. Finally, move
said couch into the winter wonderland
outside. lfeitherof these plans fail, you
might have to move.
Sincerely, Morgan and Malibu
Dear Morgan and Malibu,
I love my job, but I hate my one
co-worker. There's no nice way to put
it; she's Satan. She's constantly tak-ing
credit for work that I've done, suck-ing
up to our boss, and belittles my
work in front of others. She's one of
those kids in grade school that I'm
certain got a beating daily, but I have
to be professional. What should I do?
-I Hate My Co-Worker
Dear Hate,
We agree that most likely your co-worker
escaped the death that was
awaiting her in high school. Perhaps she
was home schooled? But unfortunately,
you are now stuck with her, and you're
correct; you can't jump her in the park-ing
lot. Sure, you could pull a Tonya
Harding and just hire someone else to
do it, but with inflation prices these days,
who can afford a decent hit man? You
may just have to take the matter into
your own hands. Sabotage. You say
that she's taking credit for your work?
Well, don't do such a great job. If she
starts to take credit for work that's slip-ping,
maybe she'll wise up and pick a
different co-worker to annoy. If that
doesn't work, office pranks that are
blamed on her could be just the ticket.
Stop being the bigger person! Pee in
the office coffee pot and then say she
did it! Just make sure there aren't any
video cameras around.
Sincerely, Morgan and Malibu
Advice: Sincerely, Morgan and Malibu
[ SPORTS 111°111111111111.111° November 4, 2002
Big Sky State Games Regular Named the Best
Jesse Kester
Sports Editor
Every summer over
500,000 athletes compete in
one of 37 recognized state
games. The National Congress
of State Games (NCSG) has
named one of those 500,000
athletes as the female State
Games Athlete of the year. That
one athlete resides right here
in Billings. Her name is Renee
Coppock.
Coppock, 40 years young,
competed in cycling for the first
time this year. and did very well.
She finished second overall
among women in the 40-mile
expert event and first in her age
group. She also took part in the
cycling hill climb competition,
tying for overall gold and first
in her age group.
This is not Renee's first
taste of gold in the Big Sky State
Games. Since 1988 Coppock
has earned 16 medals, 14 of
them gold, in 11 Big Sky
Games. Coppock has only
missed three games since mov-ing
here in 1988. She has won
most of her medals in road
races and holds the age group
record in the 5K and the 10K.
Renee's 1999 mark of 1:26.32
is the women's half-marathon
course record.
As if competing in cycling
and racing events is not ex-hausting
enough, Coppock also
takes over the concessions dur-ing
the Games Opening Cer-emonies
and serves as a road
race and track and field volun-teer.
This is a lofty set of
achievements for a girl who be-gan
her running career on coun-try
roads of Illinois. She went on
to run at the University of Illi-nois.
Coppock has been in-volved
in every major road race
in Montana over the past de-cade.
To add to an already busy
schedule-, Coppock is a lawyer,
a 4-H leader, on the chair of the
Montana Women's run commit-tee,
and participates in the
Lawyer in the Classroom pro-gram.
It appears obvious that
running has always been in
Coppock's life but why did she
pick up cycling? The story is as
simple as it is painful. On a
cool February morning in 2001,
Coppock was doing what she
enjoyed most in life, running.
Everything about the morning
was great for running. Then
tragedy struck as a car broke
the runner's body into a pain-ful
mess. After several surger-ies
she worked her way back
into running and racing form.
Come spring of 2002.
Coppock was once again pushed
out of running, maybe forever.
Complications from the injury
would no longer allow her to run.
Coppock, committed to good
health and exercise, picked up
cycling. In mid-May of this year,
Coppock was given medical
clearance to compete in cycling
as she committed to racing in the
Big Sky State Games. By July,
the start of the Games, Renee
was near the top of the cycling
events. With the encouragement
of her husband, MSU-B cross-country
coach Dave Coppock,
Coppock will show no signs of
slowing down as long as she can
get out and feel the wind in her
hair and the heavy breath of
competitors on her back.
Cross-Country Teams Leg it Out
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Need SttoorraageeP?
Jesse Kester
Sports Editor
With the end of the regu-lar
season. the Jackets' cross-country
teams have proven that
they do not know how to quit.
The men's team has competed
the whole year with only four or
three runner. Ben McNelley
missed a month while on mili-tary
training. The other three
male runners have not scored
enough points to earn a team
score all year but they never
gave up. As for the women they
have seen some success: on
the backs, or is that shoes. of
a couple of Miles City runners.
The four Jacket male run-ners
have strived to be the best
but when competing against
teams of seven they stood little
chance. Ben McNelley was the
leader until his departure. That
left a trio of runners, Brian
Fosjord, Ryan Archibald, and
Josh Jones, to run for nothing
ore than pride. These three
runners proved they had he-act,
nd tried to lift the reputation of
SU-Billings. When McNelley
eturned for the Black Hills
State Invite he was strong
enough to post a 26 place fin-ish
in a time of 33:36 on the 8K
course.
The women, coming off a
recent second place finish at
the Black Hills State Invite.
have been competing well all
year. They posted a seventh
place finish in Colorado while
running against NCAA Division
I-A teams that included the na-tionally
ranked Colorado Lady
Buffaloes. The Colorado race
also included Division II number
one Western State. The women
posted a ninth place finish a
week later while running against
the newly crowned Division II
number one Adams State.
Two Miles City runners
have paced the ladies all year.
Ellen Swogger, a sophomore,
has been the leader while fellow
Miles City native, Chelsea
Lynn-es, has been right behind.
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The women's team may have an
outside shot at making the na-tional
championship and it shows
in their running. In the end it all
comes down to that pride factor
again and both teams have no
shortage of that.
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Sports Editor
Cross Country
October 12 Northern
Colorado Invite (Greeley, CO)
Results: Women finish
ninth as Ellen Swogger fin-ishes
30th. Men's top placer
is Brian Fosjord at 56.
October 18 Black Hills
State Invite (Spearfish, SD)
Results: Women finish,
second on a Chelsea Lynnes
fifth place. Swogger came in
sixth. Brian Fosjord paced the
men finishing 19.
Golf
October 14-15 Bronco
Round Up (Boise, ID)
Results: Men only, fin-ish
10. Chris Haas posted a
76, 75, and 75 for a 226 and
tenth place.
October 20 Yellowjacket
Triangle (Pryor Creek Golf
Course)
Results: Men take -
championship led by Chris
McConnell's 80. The women
did not keep team scores but
Elizabeth Marshall paced
MSU-B with a 99.
Soccer
Men's (6-10)
October 7 Seattle Pacific
University (Seattle, WA)
Results: Men lose 0-3.
October 12 Northwest
Nazarene University (Nampa,
ID)
Results: Jackets win 3-
0.
October 13 Humboldt
State University (Nampa, ID)
Results: Jackets lose
0-1 after being tied at 0 at the
half.
October 18 Regis Univer-sity
(Denver, CO)
Results: Jax come up
short, 0-4.
October 20 Colorado
Christian University (Lake-wood,
CO)
Results: Jackets rally
to 3-1 win.
Women's (2-12)
October 10 Rocky Moun-tain
College (RMC)
Results: Ladies lose 0-
3
October 19 Jamestown
College
Results: Lady Jackets
lose 2-4.
Volleyball (6-13, 2-5)
October 18 BYU-Hawaii
(Alterowitz)
Results: Jax get swept
by the PacWest number one
and nation's number two team
in three games.
October 19 BYU-Hawaii
(Alterowitz)
Results: Lady Jackets
swept again by the Lady
Seasiders.
October 20 Chaminade
University (Alterowitz)
Results: Jax swept for
the third night in a row as the
Silverswords win in three.
Softball (4 -4 - 1)
Remaining games have
been cancelled. Softball will re-sume
again in the spring with
the first home game scheduled
for April 12 against Chaminade
University.
Tennis
Men's
No events scheduled
Women's
October 18 Montana State
University-Bozeman (Tennis
Bubble)
Results: Lady Bobcats
win five matches to two.
Amanda Schlosser and Becky
Fry earn the Lady Jackets only
victories.
October 19 MSU-Bozeman
(Tennis Bubble)
Results: Lady 'Cats win
5-2 again.
Jacket Round-Up
[ SPORTS November 4, 2002
Coaches for Soccer Teams, A Year of Transition
The men and women's soc-cer
programs at MSU-Billings
have undergone a year of transi-tion
beginning last November
with the departure of four year
head coach, Carlos Arce. The
search for his replacement lasted
until July and resulted in the hir-ing,
for the first time in three
years. of separate coaches for
the Yellowjacket men and
women's soccer teams.0
Coaching the men's team is
Doug Seigle, an NAIA all-Ameri-can
at -Viterbo College in
LaCrossa'Wl. He has spent the
last four ifears as an assistant
men's coach at Luther College in
Decorah, IA. "This year we have
been on the road a lot and de-spite
coming here only last July I
have gotten to know the players
pretty well," said Seigle.
In fact, the Men's Soccer
team (6-10 W-L) has gotten to
play only two matches on its
home pitch this season; one
against the University of Mary
(ND) and the other an exhibition
against Flathead Valley Commu-nity
College. The other 15 official
games have seen the Jackets
travel to such places as Denver
and Burnaby, British Columbia.
When asked about the lack of
home games in spite of the ex-istence
of the new facilities at the
COT sports information director
Travis Elam said, "The lack of a
conference affiliation and our
general geographic distance from
Division II programs the closest
being in Denver and the Seattle
area gives us a disadvantage
when scheduling home games."
Meanwhile, on the ladies
sidelines is Don Trentham a
former "Missouri Youth Soccer
Coach of the Year." He comes to
Billings from an assistant coach-ing
position at East Stroudsburg
University in PA. "I believe team-work
is the most important qual-ity
a student athlete must have.
They must understand that to-getherness,
team chemistry,
group loyalty and leadership are
the foundation of success for the
program."
For the Lady Jacket's (3-12)
playing home games isn't as
much of a concern as for the
mens tea, since they had six this
year including an inter-city show-down
with RMC. Keeping a team
on the field has at times proven
difficult. "We had no experienced
goaltender we had to train a for-ward
and a defender to play in the
net this year, and at times with
injuries we have had only twelve
players on our game day roster
which in soccer means only one
person on the bench," said
Trentham.
• Both mens and womens
coaches are positive that as the
players adjust to their style of
coaching and as they get a full
year of recruiting under their
belts, success will head the way
of MSU-Billings soccer. We
have gotten off to a rough start
but like to think that the future is
bright," said Seigle.
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Jesse Kester
S • orts Editor
Well, it is October and it's time
to get World Serious. With the
World Series come memories of
the past glory and failure in
baseball's crowning moment. It is
inevitable that every fall we must
see the best and worst that the se-ries
has had to offer.
One of the most shown pieces
of Series history started back in
1986 on a slow dribbler up the first
base line in the sixth game. A wob-bly
and ailing Bill Buckner of the
Boston Redsox charged Mookie
Wilson's grounder but just could not
get low enough to scoop it. The
Mets' Ray Knight scored from third
and Bucky became a goat forever
more.
I am not making an excuse for
Buckner. He made the error that did
allow the winning run to score, but
even if he had picked up the ball,
Mookie Wilson was the tenth fast-est
player in the Majors. Buck could
not have possibly beat Mook to the
bag. That situation would have a
man on first and third with Howard
Johnson, Hojo, coming up. With the
Sox reeling on the ropes and the
game in Shea it would have been
impossible for the Sox to hold off
the juggernaut Mets, they ain't
called the `Mazin's for nothing.
Little do we remember that
Buckner did not blow the Series
alone. The Redsox's closer Calvin
Schiraldi gave up three singles with
two outs in the book. It was not
Bucky who unfurled a wild pitch to
allow the tying run to score; that
was Bob Stanley. Schiraldi had 16
pitches to close out game six be-fore
ol' Bucky put on the Scarlet E
that has plagued him ever since.
It is also important to note
that the Redsox did have a game
seven against the Mets and lost.
Billy Buckner should be forgiven for
what was not entirely his fault, but
sadly until the Sox win a title that
will not happen. It was no secret
that in 1986 Buckner was in the twi-light
of a career that was started in
.1969. In 1986, he was just four
short seasons from retiring and his
knees and ankles were already
gone.
One mistake-just being in the
wrong spot at the wrong time-has
become an overwhelming virus in
what should be a hall of fame ca-reer.
Billy Buck had over 2700 hits
and a .289 career batting average.
He also picked up a batting title
along the way. In what may be the
most forgotten season ever, he
gutted out 155 games on ravaged
knees. He knocked in 102 runs
and had many clutch hits and when
the Sox were three outs away from
extinction, Bucky uncorked a
single to center to defeat the Ana-heim
Angels.
Over time our memories fade
and facts grow hazy and muddy.
So everyone "knows" Bucky blew
the series. If you fail in the.grand-est
of spotlights you will carry that
failure for the rest of your tomor-rows.
This is the price that athletes
must pay. There are no movie plots
that allow you to come back one
more time and unleash on the ball
as you slowly watch it rise to the sta-dium
lighting structure.
In a way Bill Buckner has ac-cepted
it. He has been signing pho-tos
of the error alongside Mookie
Wilson. He has taken his lumps ever
since 1986 and has finally come to
grips with the fact that it will never
change, no matter what. Some may
say that Billy Buck signing with
Mookie is a disgrace to baseball, but
what can you do when your great ca-reer
has become little more than a
laughing stock?
Bucky's disgrace has even
been carried over to the extreme. He
has received an uncountable
amount of death threats, many heard
by his wife or kids on the telephone.
A few years back he had to move
his family to Idaho, not because he
loves potatoes, but because he
wanted his family to feel safe. Some
may say he is running away but on
those knees he hasn't run since
1984. So please cut him a break
and forgive. Next time you see that
play and you start to "Hulk" out at
the sight, just calm down and re-member
that you're watching the
defining moment of a great man with
a huge heart having it broken over
and over again every October.
1. Quarters are like gold.
2. Two meals a day is stan-dard.
3. Road trip whenever pos-sible.
4. Going to the mailbox was
never such an ego booster/
breaker before.
5. You will lose p
again.
6. Your book bill ill al-most
equal tuition.
7. Squirt guns=stress relief
8. E-mail will become your
second language.
9. College students throw
paper airplanes too.
10. You never realized so
many people were smarter than
you.
11. Western Europe could
be wiped out by a horrible plague
and you would never knovi,- but
you can recite last week'skrun
of the Simpson's verbati7
12. You will riont more
movies in your life.
13. No one is too old for
video games.
14. The health service
nurses are there because they
couldn't rn)a e it. at a real
hospital. ever, e,Ver forget that.
la are paclges are right
up there ityr-bict\hdays.
16. ampus is only clean
for family weekend and fresh-man
orientation.
17. It never sucked so,
much to be sick.
18. Nothing you want to
register for will be open.
19. Beware of the "Fresh-man
15."
20. Classes...the later the
better.
21. lal"--CIre\atre in the din-ing
hall.
22."-(-- q) e no longer
thankful that/ the ire alarms are
here to protect you.
23. Disney movies are
more than just classics.
24. Asleep by 2:30 am is an
early night.
25. Cereal makes a meal
any time of the day.
26. New additions to food
groups: beer, ramen, and pizza.
27. ATM's are the devils ad-vocate.
ATM=Another Twenty
Missing.
28. Duct tape fixes anything.
29. if they say you can't
have it in your dorm, they are just
kidding.
30. Keys have never been
important, yet you seem to
them even more.
31. Showers become less
important, sleep becomes more
important.
32. You will eat anywhere
that is a buffet.
33. You realize that college
is the ideal lifestyle...except for
those pesky classes.
34. Procrastination is an art
eans may be worn as
mapytimes and the wearer de,
sires.
36 ly time to dress
up is when your jeans are dirty.
37. You'll eat anything that's
free.
38. College sports are the
coolest thing on the planet.
39. Cartoons are for all
ages, especially Scooby Doo.
40. You are never alone.
41. Snood is more addict-ing
tha
4 Thanks to Napster, you
will nev rt.(
CD's ever again.
43. Walls in your dorm are
NOT soundproof.
44. You will come to hate
halls with a passion.
45. Stealing from the dining
hall will become second nature.
46. If it's snowing outside,
the only time you will leave your
room is for food or beer.
47. Instant messenger be-comes
an addiction.
48. Dishes start to smell af-ter
days of piling up.
are, some people just wir' mile
back. Get used to it.
49. No matter ho ) you
50. Pictures, posters, e-mails,
or anything else to cover
the ugly cell we live in will be
transformed into wallpaper.
ten to any of your
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Volume 73 - Issue 3 - November 4, 2002
ACUI Audience Silenced by Kern's Vivid Story
Staff Writer
A Holocaust victim cast an un-easy
light on a recent Association of
College Unions International meeting
in Portland.
Alice Kern's tale of how her
family was stripped of all its belongings
and herded into cattle cars hushed stu-dents
and faculty attending the ACUI
conference immediately. Each person
sat in complete silence, as she talked
about how her mother and two young
cousins were deemed of no use upon
arrival at Auschwitz and immediately
sent to the gas chamber. while she was
sent to do labor with other able-bodied
women.
She spoke of how they might be
called to be stripped and stood in rows
to be looked over at any time of day or
night. If their health appeared to be fad-ing,
they would be sent to the gas cham-ber
as well.
Kern spoke of how they were
drugged to keep them docile as they
stripped the clothes from people being
herded by the thousands into the gas
chambers. They tore the clothing into
strips and treated them with chemicals
to make explosives for the Nazi army.
Every person, young and old alike, who
arrived at Auschwitz were sent to the
gas chambers.
Kern spoke slowly, and occasion-ally
she would grow quiet as she told
the group of how as the years wore on,
she grew thin. She knew that she. too,
like her mother and many of her friends
would be chosen to be pCit to death if
she did not do something. Kern learned
to hide from guards who were chosen
to weed out the weak. Several times
she was caught and sent to the gas
chambers. Kern said the insides looked
just like showers but there was always
one black shower head from which no
water
flowed.
Each time
she was
saved,
once be-cause
of a
bombing
raid and an-other
be-cause
the
victims re-alized
their
fate and ri-oted.
Kern
talked
about the
failed at-tempts
of
many to es-cape.
As
the war drew to a close, Nazi forces
began to realize they would lose. Near
the end of her second year at the camp
they were forced to walk many miles
on bare feet with no food or water. Her
only source of sustenance was the
snow she could grab from the side of
the roads before the soldiers would see
her. Anyone who no longer could walk
was shot and left behind. Eventually
they made their way to the train depot
where they were once again loaded
into open-roofed box cars. subjected
to the cold and the snow.
They sat in the cars for days sur-viving
as best they could on snow that
fell intermittently. Eventually the train
left the station and they were moved
to another death camp where they
were kept in flea-infested cabins and
abandoned as the Nazis fled. The
women waited there, afraid they may
be shot if they left. Eventually the sur-viving
women were freed from the
camp by the Allies. Kern was found in
a coma by the Swiss and sent to Swit-zerland
where they took care of her and
nourished her back to health. Kern
spoke of seeing herself in a mirror the
first time she felt able to walk. She
said she had no face anymore just
sunken eyes, her legs and chest no
more than a skeleton.
Kern didn't fear death while in
captivity. She just wanted to live. Her
mother had told her on the train to
Auschwitz that she had to grow up and
get married. She used her mother's
words to help her survive.
She met and married a photog-rapher
who had been assigned to take
pictures of prison-camp survivors.
They moved to Portland Oregon where
they made their life. Kern spoke about
how she refused to let herself think of
anything before she arrived in Portland,
wanting to forget her experiences in
Auschwitz. Her mind changed after
having her fourth child. Kern decided
that the must remember her family and
her mother so she began to write ev-erything
down she remembered. She
wrote many years on scraps of paper
on the backs of envelopes as she re-membered
different things about her
life before coming to America.
Wondering if anyone else had
these memories she began to search
other survivors of the Holocaust.
Eventually she formed a group of
people sharing their stories and work-ing
together to make sure no one ever
forgot what hate can do. Kern told the
ACUI group of her group's current
project to get a memorial built along
the Columbia River for all those who
suffered.
Kern has since gone back to
Auschwitz and her home town to face
her past. She told a television crew.
who accompanied her. about life in
the death camp. Kern told historians
details they hadn't known. Her native
house was now occupied and had
been remodeled. Nothing of her fam-ily
remained inside.
Throughout her speech Kern
emphasized that hate accomplishes
nothing. She doesn't hate the Nazis
because that is what they would want.
She told the group that they are lead-ers
and have an obligation to fight hate
in their areas and to promote diver-sity.
Kern said to never give up.
This was one of the many pre-sentations
at the ACUI Leadership
seminar. Eight MSU-Billings students
and staff members, Alexis Urbaniak,
Nels Kelley. Noelle Clark,Carla
Amerson, Amanda Prongua.Christina
Sprague, . Cheryl Grew-Gillen at-tended
the confrence. Many seminars
spoke of hate and how to combat its
effects and to respect diversity but this
one event stood out to those who at-tended
it. All who attended the con-ference
came back with experiences
which they hope to put to use on the
campus and memories they will never
forget.
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Janna Huhtala
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and weekends in a ski cabin at
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Anyway, in this issue you will
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Larissa Leonard
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Every year the college re-views
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rules for each of the buildings.
Jeannie Mclsaac-Tracy stated,
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The renovations irr the Lib-eral
Arts building included a
sprinkler system; now the
dorms, Rimrock and Petro, are
the only places left to receive
sprinkler systems. The state
will not fund the sprinkler sys-tems
in the dorms because they
are not considered places of
learning. If you live in the
dorms you could lose every-thing
because of one careless
mistake. The only way to have
a sprinkler system put into
place is by people petitioning
that they want a sprinkler sys-tem
and finding the money to
fund the project.
Adding a sprinkler system
costs, at minimum, $950,000.
This price just for starting the
project. When the buildings
were built there was not a re-quirement
for buildings under
eight stories to have sprin-klers.
There have been talks
as to whether or not to have a
complete sprinkler system in-stalled
in each of the dorm
rooms. There are already
sprinkler heads on each floor
in the kitchens, laundry rooms,
near the garbage chutes, in the
hallways, and between the
bathrooms and showers.
Students with disabilities
who may need assistance to
exit the buildings should go to
Disability Support Services
(DSS) to find out how to exit the
buildings safely. DSS will tell
students where to go during a
fire alarm. They should also
have an RA, a neighbor, if they
are in the dorms, or a friend in
their classes know where they
are so the rescue personnel
could help them down easier.
Knowing the escape routes
for each of the buildings you are
in will make it easier to evacu-ate
the building if there ever is
a real fire. There are evacua-tion
plans posted in each of the
buildings. Keep yourself safe by
knowing where the fire exits are
for all the buildings you are in.
Is Corporate Funding Inevitable For MSU-B?
\
With the likelihood of no new
money coming from the state of
Montana for public higher-educa-tion
within the foreseeable future,
the hands and thoughts of schools
like MSU-Billings may be turning to
corporations in hopes of supple-menting
their budgets. Prominent
local corporations like First Inter-state
Bank, Cenex, and the Billings
Gazette already contribute thou-sands
of dollars to Montana State
University-Billings. These funds,
however, support scholarship
funds, the Wine Festival, and the
softball field, not educational ex-penses
per se. In fact, according
to recent comments of Joe Howell,
Professor of Mathematics and Co-chair
of the University Budget Com-mittee,
"The operating budget of
MSU-Billings is based almost en-tirely
on general fund support from
the state and student tuition. Cor-porate
funding simply does not fig-ure
into . . . budget projections."
Even so, the positive and
negative influences of corporate
funding are considerations as the
prospect for an increase of such
funding looms over the state's
schools. Most significantly, corpo-rate
funding has potential to direct
the results of university research
and educational focus. If a particu-lar
business is funding an entire
department, is it not likely that the
curricula within that department
may become centered around the
particular criteria of the sponsoring
business? Likewise, if a research
project is funded by a corporation,
are the results going to be objec-tive
or skewed to reflect the agen-das
of that corporation? According
to Howell, "The danger is that cor-porations
increasingly set the aca-demic
research agenda to suit their
own interests, which may not be
those of society as a whole." This
is part of the impediant to free in-vestigation.
Apparently the findings
of such corporate-funded research
"may belong to the corporation,
which" according to Howell, "could
further impede scientific research."
To date, Howell says that he
has seen no such skewing of results
or aiming of curricula at MSU-Bill-ings.
And, in keeping with the os-tensible
interest of students in ob-jective
education, this present spon-sorship
without ownership should
be the norm. Despite the contribu-tions
of corporations, a genuinely
public university must consider its
responsibilities to students long
before it panders to the wishes of
its corporate contributors.
The positive impact of corpo-rate
funds is the financial burden
they absorb where they are used.
As corporate scholarship recipients,
for example, qualified students
don't pay the increased tuition from
their own funds but instead with the
corporations' sponsorships. Simi-larly
as research, activity, or facil-ity
support, corporate funds free up
university monies that may other-wise
not be available to the imme-diate
concern of education.
Corporate funding appears in-evitable.
But, if it continues to be
handled in the present no-strings-attached
way, corporate funding
stands to become increasingly in-strumental
in Montana's higher edu-cation
system.
Staff Writer
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[ NEWS 1-0
The Troubits of Traveling By Air
November 4, 2002
Brett Harrison
Staff Writer
The birth of the Internet has
spawned many sites that claim to save
consumers money, and airline tickets
are no exception. Cheaptrips.com
promises up to 85% percent off inter-national
flights and up to 50% off do-mestic
flights. This site also requires a
membership fee of $29 a year and
claims if the same ticket with the same
itinerary is found at the same price or
cheaper within 24 hours the lower price
will be met or the full price will be re-funded.
This is a nice service, but if
you have to pay for it are you really
saving much? And unless you spend
a bunch of time looking around, how
do you really know what you saved?
Another popular site for deals on
airfare as well as car rentals, hotel
deals, and vacation packages is
www.priceline.com . This site is auc-tion
style in which you name a price
for tickets. If an airline accepts it, you
are notified and your credit card is au-tomatically
charged. Since you are au-tomatically
billed this services makes
it difficult to get a quote and compari-son
shop. There area number of other
web sites that offer sales on tickets,
including www.travelocity.com ,
www.trip.com , www.bestfares.com ,
just to name a few. Also, try the indi-vidual
airline company's web site. Most
of these ask for basic information like
departure and arrival dates and cities,
and then provide a list of travel options
and prices to chose from. These sites
are good for people willing to invest
Local radio station Hot 101.9
and Pepsi-Cola took a stand
against breast cancer last month,
which was Breast Cancer Aware-ness
Month. To remind women to
receive regular mammogram
checks for the disease, they have
organized a collection of used
over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders
to fly as flags in support of victims,
and also to encourage widespread
awareness of cancer. I spoke with
Casey Paul of Hot 101.9 about the
bras hung on sign posts at Dick's
24th Street Conoco. Every week
the crew at Hot 101.9, led by Cap-tain
Mike himself, hangs the
the time and effort to do the research,
check for deals, and make all neces-sary
arrangements themselves.
There are a number of travel
agents in Billings, all found in the Yel-low
pages of the phone book in addi-tion
to being listed with links at
www.flybillings.com/tickets.html .
Travel agents are a full service busi-ness
that will help with problems be-fore,
during, and after travel arrange-ments
are made through them. They
not only sell complete vacation pack-ages
but also sell just airline tickets.
They can even help with hotel reser-vations
and car rentals as well as get
good rates and help with travel direc-tions
and local area maps of travel
destinations. Because they under-stand
all the rules and are aware of all
upcoming sales events, they can work
to get the lowest fair and help with the
best times for departure and arrival.
Security atthe Billings Logan In-ternational
Airport continues to oper-ate
at an enhanced security level and
plans to continue indefinitely. This
means all vehicles entering the termi-nal
loop will be searched for bombs.
Visitors are not allowed to leave their
car unattended in front of the termi-nal;
however, passenger drop-offs and
pickups are allowed at the curbside.
All airline passengers can expect to
be searched before boarding and,
consequently, passengers are re-quested
to show up two hours before
their departure.
As reported in the Oct. 18 Wash-ington
Post, the Transportation Secu-
*Administration (TSA) is warning air-weekly
addition of bras around a
promotional sign at the gas sta-tion.
The grand goal is 500 bras,
and so far around half have been
collected. The 500 weathered
bras flew in the wind at the end of
October. Bras can be sent or
dropped off for donation to The
Granite Building, 222 N. 32nd
Street, Floor #10, Billings, MT,
59101. Here they will be counted
diligently (even if they are really old
and crappy!). Bring in your K-Mart
special with the cruel underwire
poking out, or even that thing with
the tassels that you never really
wear, and get involved with this
important cause today! '
Please look for next issues
conclusion to this article.
ports that they must meet the Dec. 31
deadline to screen all baggage for
bombs because attempts in Congress
to exempt some airports have stalled.
Installing bomb scanning equipment
and personnel to operate them will not
only be expensive but time consuming,
in some cases requiring major construc-tion.
The TSA was created in the wake
of the terrorist attacks, and one of its
jobs is to inspect all passenger luggage
for bombs by Dec. 31. The TSA is also
charged with hiring and training new fed-eral
screeners who would replace those
with private security outfits. According
to Tom Binford, assistant director ofAvia-tion
at the Billings Logan International
Airport, TSA personnel do not expect
any significant problems in meeting the
Dec. 31 deadline for screening all bag-gage.
Binford also has said the feder-alization
of the security screening per-sonnel
in Billings occurred the week of
Sept. 23, 2002, well ahead of the Nov.
19 deadline.
Many people view the increase in
security as a hassle and have increased
the amount of time and miles they are
willing to drive before considering flying.
There have been many follies reported
illustrating the numbness of some
screener's brains. But they have imple-mented
some changes in hopes of in-corporating
some kind of common
sense in their jobs. For example, they
will no longer ask stupid questions like
"Has anyone unknown to you asked
you to carry an item on this flight?" They
have also rethought some of the re-strictions
of what passengers can carry
on board the plane. For example,
passenger's can again carry open bev-erage
containers like sealed plastic, ce-ramic
and glass containers on board
without being required to drink it. While
it may seem that little old ladies are the
only ones hassled, according to the
Oct. 16 St. Petersburg Times, as of July
30 of this year 783,000 knives, 31,000
box cutters, and 813 guns have been
confiscated nationwide by airport se-curity.
Last month alone there were
62,000 knives seized. Aside from any
inconveniences posed by security, par-ticularly
those inconveniences magni-fied
since Sept. 11, 2001, they are suc-ceeding
in keeping flight travel safe.
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MSU-Billings Students take part in "Tartuffe"
Staff Writer
One day two weeks ago,
Communications students cam-pus-
wide were ecstatic to hear an
announcement from "Tartuffe" di-rector
Randall Pugh. Randy re-quested
professors to ralease their
students from class for a short 15
minute media production to be
used in the upcoming play. A
psuedo-Baptist revival scene was
set, with multitalented Brad Porter
playing the deliciously sinful
Tartuffe, modernized from Moliere
into a traveling miracle worker al-ways
looking for a poor sucker to
dupe. Several acting students
were pulled from the front rows of
-thwamphitheater, .(for those who
don't know, our amphitheater is
that big scoop out of the hillside
between the student parking lot
and the L.A. Building, with a cement
box in the center). Tartuffe pro-ceeded
to "save" them, and as the
enraptured crowd cried to the Lord
for mercy, he knelt with them and
slammed their heads up and down
violently towards the ground, pre-sumably
to make them not want to
sin again (or maybe not be saved
again?) Characters from the play
were also "purified" for sins such
as shopping and smoking addic-tions,
and the occasional lechery,
as in the case Dustin Olsen, who
plays Orgon in "Tartuffe".
The mini-production was vid-eotaped
and will be used as back-ground
media for this hilarious
play. I encourage everyone to join
in the good, clean, fun; even
though it may not be,that clean,
Tartuffe will prove to be a master-piece
in performance.
[ NEWS ]----10
November 4, 2002
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Tartuffe: Born Again, Here on Campus
Press
Release
The Drama Committee of
ASMSU-Billings presents
Tartuffe: Born Again, a modern
adaptation of the Moliere clas-sic,
by Freyda Thomas. The
production runs November 20-
23, at 7:30 pm, in Petro theatre
on the MSU-Billings campus.
Communications and theatre
lecturer Randall Pugh directs.
Ticket prices are $8 for general
admission and $5 for students,
senior citizens and the MSU-B
community. Watch for special
two-for-one discount coupons.
Theatregoers should note that
the curtain for this production
will be one half hour earlier
than usual (7:30 pm). The show
contains partial nudity and
adult situations. Parental guid-ance
is recommended.
In this wickedly funny
translation, the title character,
"Tartuffe" is a recently de-frocked
televangelist (reminis-cent
of Jim Baker or Jimmy
Schwaggert), who bilks the vul-nerable
and unsuspecting pa-trons
of his TV crusade for per-sonal
gain. He invades the
household of a wealthy busi-nessman-
turned-TV producer,
and begins broadcasting ge-neric
spiritual drivel through a
program called "Eternal Bliss."
Of course, the broadcast is
only a front for soliciting cash
contributions to support a se-ries
of non-existent social and
humanitarian programs. In his
spare time, the charlatan
"Tartuffe" also proceeds to gain
title to the TV studio, complete
with an unlimited expense ac-count
and to implicate his em-ployer
in a political scandal
while attempting to seduce his
wife. All the elements of French
farce are preserved in this pro-duction,
including thwarted
young lovers, strategic
"disinformation" and an elev-enth
hour rescue and reversal.
The MSU-Billings produc-tion
of Tartuffe: Born Again fea-tures
college and community
actors; including Patrick Wil-son,
Brad Porter, Heather Saw-yer,
Dustin Olsen, Christi
Fisher, Jessica Verzatt, Justin
Sian, Megan Schultz, Lauren
Moreno, Deryk Cunningham,
Lisa Brayco, Anna O'Donnell,
and others. The assistant di-rector
is Kristen Horn, set and
lighting designer is Paul
Jangula, costume designer is
Avery Bandel, and the stage
manager is Lexi Syme.
For further information on
this production, please contact
Randy Pugh at 657-1722.
Dean Spotlight
College of Arts and Sciences
Jed Barton
Staff Writer
Daniel Zirker, the dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences
here at MSU-B, has an adminis-trative
task slightly different from
those of his colleagues at the
Colleges of Education and Hu-man
Services, Business, Profes-sional
Studies and Lifelong
Learning and Technology. As
Zirker says. "the College of Arts
and Sciences is not united
around a group of interrelated oc-cupations.
Rather, it spans a
wide range of subjects."
The College of Arts and Sci-ences
is the oldest and largest
college at MSU-B and has two
major components: General
Education and the degree pro-grams.
Zirker says "One of our
primary objectives is to serve the
university and its goals by teach-ing
courses that fulfill the general
education requirements toward
graduation."
The College of Arts and Sci-ences
offers majors and minors
in many academic areas, includ-ing
History, Political Science, Art,
Music, English, Music, Math-ematics,
Communications, Sociol-ogy,
History, Native American Stud-ies,
Psychology and the Physical
Sciences. "One of the things that we
do with our degree programs is to
focus on pre-professional areas such
as pre-law and pre- med" said Zirker.
Zirker, who is a graduate of the
University of Montana and holds a
Doctorate from the University of
Alberta in Edmonton, came to MSU-B
in 1998 from the University of
Idaho, where he was the Director of
the University Honors program, as
well as professor of Political Science.
At MSU-B he currently is the Direc-tor
of the Honors Program, Political
Science professor and interim direc-tor
of the Environmental Science pro-gram,
as well as dean.
With regards to the future of the
College of Arts and Sciences, Zirker
said he looks forward to creation of
a new Masters degree in Public Ad-ministration,
and the completion of
the LA building renovation. He adds
that the College of Arts and Sciences
will continue to serve the people of
the state of Montana by providing a
variety of curricular choices, all of
which are academically excellent, as
we have done in the past.
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The Billings chapter of
NORML, or National Organiza-tion
for the Reformation of Mari-juana
Laws, headed by Adam
Jones of MSU-Billings, has
been co-hosting several events
to further their cause lately. And
what is their cause? According
to Jones, NORML's main focus
at this time is reforming the in-famous
Higher Education Act.
This Act limits financial aid stu-dents
with prior drug convic-tions,
and varies with each in-dividual.
Jones has been ap-pealing
to the MSU-B student
government for over two
months to vote on a petition to
reform these laws. MSU-B has
been somewhat unresponsive
thus far, which could be a re-sult
of NORML being such a
controversial organization.
Jones believes that keeping con-victed
drug offenders from their
rightful education is wrong, and is
fighting along with Green Party Can-didate
Scott Proctor to change it.
Friends of Scott Proctor recently put
on a multi-band concert/gathering to
support legalization of marijuana for
recreational use on the state ballots,
as three states have done already.
Appearing at the Groovin' Green
Party were local favorites, Cold Snap
9 and the psychedelic Lupian Zoo.
NORML's future plans include
a concert featuring Grudge on April
20. They are still looking for a place
to get down that will allow alcohol to
be served, (at the request of
Grudge.) Also, Jones is appealing
to the Student Government for funds
to journey to Anaheim, Calif., this
Nov. for the Marijuana Policy Project
Conference, where Bill Marr will
speak as an advocate to marijuana
reformation.
Jennifer Fenton
InterTribal Indian Club
Looking for a little cultural di-versity?
Inter-Tribal Indian club is
maybe what you are looking for.
The club is looking to spread a
little diversity and heritage to the
MSU-B campus. Officers of the
club are President Lucy Real Bird,
Vice-President Dennis Beau-mont.
Secretary Francis Takes
Enemy, and Sergeant at arms
Jericho Laforge, William Snell II,
and Althea James. Faculty advi-sors
are Quintin Gilham, and Dr.
Jeff Sanders. The club meets ev-ery
Wed at 3:30p.m. in the Mis-souri
room located in the SUB.
Everyone is welcome to join (you
do not have to be Native Ameri-can).
This year the club is trying
to raise enough money to hold the
annual Pow-Wow April 11-12
2003. They would also like to hold
a health conference two days be-fore
the Pow-Wow. They are rais-ing
this money with bake sales
and Indian Taco sales. They are
also trying to hold a fun run and a
three- on- three-basketball tour-nament.
They will be hosting a
bingo night in Nov., participating
in the Holiday Parade, and hold-ing
more Indian Taco sales
(yum). President Real Bird says.
"We just want to try and raise
some cultural diversity among
the students on the campus. We
want them to know a little more
about our heritage, be more cul-turally
aware." They hope the
year will be a successful one and
are hoping more students will
join. So if you are looking for
something new and want to
learn more about another heri-tage,
feel free to attend a meet-ing.
You may learn something
new and meet some great
people.
Art Students League
Are you an aspiring artist look-ing
for a place to show your work,
wanting to see the artwork of oth- -
ens, or just mingle with people who
share a common interest? Maybe
art Students League (ASL) is just
the club you're looking for. ASL,
headed by President Kirk Peterson,
with Vice- President Adrienne
Loveridge, Secretary Carole
Eggum, Treasurer Jennifer Beck,
and faculty advisor Peter Warren,
meet every Friday at 12:50 p.m. in
room 309 of McMullen Hall. Any-body
is welcome to join; there is a
$7 per year fee. This year the ASL
helped de.corate for Beaux-Arts Ball
held for the Yellowstone Art Museum.
They will also be sponsored by an
art auction on Dec. 6. The auctior
will take place at the Broadway Build-ing
downtown. The auction is in con-junction
with the Downtown Billings
Association Artwalk and the Christ-mas
Stroll. Interested students must
have their artwork submitted by Nov.
22. Each student who submits work
will receive two complimentary tick-ets
to the event. With the profits from
the auction the students hope to buy
new equipmerlt, have workshops.
bring in visiting artists, and begin stu-dent
scholarships. They will also fea-ture
an exhibit at the Art Gallery irk
Red Lodge, trying to take some trips
to other art museums in the Unitec
States, and maybe bringing in some
guest artists. The goal of ASL is tc
give art students an opportunity tc
share their art with others and to be
involved in the community and corn-munity
art gatherings. President
Peterson said, "The goal of ASL is
to get MSU-B art students involvec
in the community and to have the op-portunity
to share our work with the
public." If this sounds like something
you would be interested in attend a
meeting or give them a call.
Staff Writer
is Born
Press
Release
A new organization is begin-ning
on the Campus of Montana
State University- Billings. The So-ciety
of Success and Leadership
will set up informational booths in
the COB and SUB Nov 4 and 6.
The first meeting of the new chap-ter
will be Nov. 6 at 7:00 PM.
The mission of the Society
reads: "To help you create the life
you desire by giving you the sup-port,
motivation, and tools to
achieve your goals. "
This organization was created
through a nationwide effort of pro-fessional
motivational speakers
who want to truly impact students
on a long-term basis. The Society
brings continuity between presen-tation
and follow-through for stu-dents.
Students can take action on
what they have learned: it is also a
more cost effective way for schools
to obtain quality speakers who pro-vide
impact for students in power-ful
and lasting ways. The Society
has changed the face of motivational
presentations.
The new chapter hopes to help in-terested
students become the lead-ers
of tomorrow.
Club Highlights
[ Campus Life
SOSL: A New Club
November 4, 2002
COLLEGE BOWL 2003 OCOLLEGE
Press BOWL
Release
Montana State University-Billings
will compete in College Bowl, "the Varsity
Sport of the Mind." COLLEGE BOWL is
a game of academic knowledge and
quick recall. Now in its 27Th year nation-ally.
the COLLEGE BOWL Campus Pro-gram
is a popular tradition on America's
campuses. MSU-B is among nearly 300
institutions of higher education playing
COLLEGE BOWL this season.
Like the popular radio and televi-sion
series of the 50s. 60s, and 70s. the
game features two teams of four players
each competing to score points to Toss-
Up and Bonus questions. The questions
cover every conceivable topic from litera-ture.
science. history. geography. religion,
social sciences. multicultural topics, and
the arts to popular culture, sports. and cur-rent
events.
COLLEGE BOWL is organized and
administered with the cooperation of the
Association of College Unions — Interna-tional
(ACU-I). Our Campus Tournament
is run by the Student Union and Activi-ties
Office.
Competition at MSU-B begins
with the Campus Tournament to select
the Varsity Team. The Campus Tour-nament
is scheduled for Wednesday,
November 13, 2002 from 6:30 —11:00
PM. OurVarsity Team and/or high scor-ers
will advance to the Regional Tour-nament,
February 21-23, 2003. This
year's Regionals will be held at Univer-sity
of Washington in Seattle.
The National Championship Tour-nament,
scheduled forApril 25-27, 2003
at the University of Pennsylvania in Phila-delphia,
features the 15 Regional Cham-pions.
Recruitment for students, faculty.
and staff to assist with the campus tour-nament
has also begun. Anyone willing
to volunteer to help with MSU-B COL-LEGE
BOWL please contact us.
To sign up for MONTANA STATE
UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS COLLEGE
BOWL competition, contact Christina
and Noelle at 657-2387 or come by the
SUB 219 by November 5, 2002.
MSU-B is Holding
Its Campus Tournment
On Wednesday, Nov. 13
From 6:30 to 11:00 Pm
In the Lewis and Clark Room
To register your team
Or
Volunteer to help out
Stop by Sub 219
by Tuesday Nov. 5th
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Campus Life November 4, 2002
Campus Beat
Trac Schwei • ert
Here is your current install-ment
of the happenings on
campus. Lets all get involved
and show our support for the
various organizations. The fol-lowing
activities are open to all
participants and you are en-couraged
to join.
The Music Department's
previously scheduled Nov. 1
concert has been changed. The
Choir Concert will begin at 7:30
pm in Cisel Recital Hall.
Reminder that the United
Campus Ministry is still meet-ing
at noon, every Wednesday
in th€ SUB Atrium for their
Pizza bible study. Also on
Wednesday nights the Disciple-ship
Group meets in the Madi-son
Room for discussion,
prayer, and bible study. For
more information you can con-tact
Kim at 657-2165 or by
email, unitedcampusministryA
hotmail.com .
ASMSUB, Student Senate
is still holding their weekly
meetings every Tuesday at 5
pm. Everyone is welcome to
join in on the meetings and
bring up any viable concerns
from campus. If you are too shy
to directly speak in front of the
Senators, then you are also wel-come
to leave your concern with
Valerie Sperry in the ASMSUB
office, room 213. Also con-gratulations
to the Senate Of-fice
on receiving the rank of
Grand Marshall in the upcoming
Holiday Parade. Thc, parade is
set for Nov. 29 downtown, and
any organization on campus is
welcome to participate.
Student Union Activities
Council (SUAC) has set the
2002-2003 Movie Series sched-ule.
On Dec. 5 SUAC will be
showing Lilo and Stitch at 6:30
pm; the movie is free to everyone.
Jennifer Fenton
Staff Writer
a h The Garbage
Thing? Have you ever asked yourself
that question? Many students have
asked, but I hold the answer. The gar-bage
thing is a sculpture that was de-signed
and built by Cory Wagner and
Louis Delgato. The sculpture, entitled
2001: Waste Odyssey, is the result of
an inspiration that was given to them
during an environmental art class with
guest lecturer Lynn Hull, who was on
campus last fall. The class is offered
every couple of years and is taught by
Dr. Patricia Vettle-Becker. Wagner and
Delqato thought of marry things that
were on our campus and settled upon
Styrofoam. They wanted to think of a
way they could memorialize the gar-bage.
They got every piece of
Styrofoam from the cafeterias on cam-us,
washed them out to the best of
eir abilities, and began constructing.
ne purpose was for the public to see
ow nature takes on garbage, and
e things they use and th
everday. People may not think a
the one thing they throw away b
adds up when everybody throws o
thing away. Wagner stated, "Most s
dents on campus don't think about
much less what it can be. We just w
people to think about it and the en
ronmental issues on our campus. C
ative people are the ones who co
up with the solutions. By visualizing
how much Styrofoam is thrown a
daily. "Maybe next time you'll cho
plastic". Wagner and Delgato got
proval to place their sculpture by F-itySerNices,
The funding for the proj
came from the art department
a donated fund. The two also
a grade for their idea and design.
Next time you are walking be-tvveen
the LA building end the Scien
Hall or Education building, stop a
take a minute to see just what we
doing to our environment and jus
much Styrofoam is thrown away i
day. Take time to re
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